Exactly. Now listen. Science tells us that conservatives demonize liberals more than the other way round. Furthermore we see in the other what we won't see in ourselves, conservatives also better at that than liberals, so the first thing that happens when communication is open and a liberal pipes up is on shit, the liberal is trying to demonize me. So it seems to me that conservatives have more to overcome to communicate than liberals do. Now if this is factual as the science says it is, then these are just the facts. It doesn't take much, I think, looking at this thread, to see that conservatives are quite defensive.
Now LunarRay says I'm tenacious at defending my positions, but I see it rather as a kind of charity. It is deeply important, for the reasons of which you spoke, to find some bridge over this barrier to communication. Real liberal and conservative thinking leads to thinking a third way and that's always where the truth is, in my opinion.