I hang out on a number of left-wing forums and one thing that is pretty consistent is how wimpy left-wingers are when compared to conservatives. Specifically, if the debate doesn't involve a 10 to 1 advantage in their favor (in participants) they start whining about being ganged up on.
I see liberals on these forums whine about how "right wing" JoeUser is (for example) when I would say that in terms of active members, it's about 2 to 1 in favor of conservatives right now (and why is that? because liberals flee communities when the 10 to 1 advantage is lost because they can't debate issues logically - in general).
One of the reasons I don't typically get upset in online debates with liberals the way liberals go absolutely ballistic at any challenges to their half-baked beliefs is because in the end, liberals don't matter. Meet someone who actually DOES something in the real world and it's almost never a liberal.
A liberal's view of compassion is believing in federal policies that involve someone else paying for them. A conservative believes compassion involves actually doing something to help someone.
The health care is just a typical example. The ones doing the crying about it (liberals) are usually the ones paying the least into the system. Take a poll of small business owners (who are the ones who pay for most of the insurance in the United States) and find out what their political leanings are. It's not even close.
And whenever someone tries to put forward a common sense series of solutions, like the founder of Whole Foods, liberals go nuts and start talking about protests and boycotts.
Liberals are great at protesting since it doesn't involve doing anything. 