A prize. Toilet paper perhaps?

Tell me more, William.

@dannydreamer We all have the same basic goals for the country, but there is disagreement about how those goals are best met. Conservatives generally favor individual initiative.

Both parties are infested with politicians, so from that we know they are basically dishonest and are after money and power for themselves.

Politician = ego.

How DO you look at it number 1?

@dannydreamer first off it's Mr Five.

I look at both as large coalitions of people trying to get what they want to bring about some idealized world in which they want to live - even if it's someone else's vision of that world they've bought into ATM.

Politics, to me, is how you want those you don't know treated. Everyone (except for the psychotic) wants them and thiers to be treated the same way they do - with preferential treatment if possible but if not then the problem/issue still gets resolved - so a "me" or "we" designation is meaningless as a party descriptor. The difference between conservative and moderate (we don't actually have a liberal party here) is in the way help/services are provided - "the left" tends to believe help should be easy to get and society/government has an obligation to step in and help before someone crashes and burns, and to help them up the ladder climbing out. Conservatives tend to believe society, not government, should be providing less help, but here's the key - they tend to think that the more you're able to do things by yourself not only will you eventually be better off because it's you that did it, but society as a whole will be better because "necessity is the mother of invention" and removing the necessity also removes the invention.

That's about the best I can describe it without going for 10 or 15 paragraphs. Hope it makes sense to you.