Conservatives will not work with us because they hate us.

[LynneSin]

1. Most Conservatives of the 50's and 60's would be chased out of today's GOP

Honestly, I think alot of us progressives posting here today probably would have been members of the GOP 60+ years ago.

Not only has the GOP party been totally hijacked by the religious nutjob you have to add in several virulently hateful Dixie Democrats who left the Democratic Party for the GOP after the Civil Rights movement passed. Think about it - at one time Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond called themselves Democrats but when they switched to the GOP they took along their homophobic, racist hatred and instilled those values into the GOP. Add in the religious craziness and you have a GOP party that would not be recognized by the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt or Dwight Eisenhower.