text: why do conservatives so often think that somebody is too blame for somebody being a liberal? it seems that it is always somebody/something's fault for somebody being a liberal.  liberal media liberal education liberal parents  why can't it just be that it is something they formed on their own?  of course we are all a product of our environment, but i have friends who have had very similar upbringings (same school, same neighborhood...etc) as my own and we have very different political views.  i know a couple people who are very liberal and their fathers are ministers in very traditional churches. conservatives fear free thinkers ones they can't control. so they blame everything bad on liberals because they have no solutions of their own. it's the old blame game.