>They are driven by young, dumbass children or inbred rednecks who bought the libertarian/fascist line about needing to own some libs or the line about the government needing to get out of people's lives and let everyone do whatever they want.

americans are individualistic. you wont get very far by saying "do things this way I passionately believe in OR ELSE, you inbred redneck". they then do this to spite you "own the libs". better to say, "do things however you want, it's not for me to say how you live your life, but that would be cool if you did X because Y and I'm passionate about this because Z. both sides of the aisle are guilty of painfully enforcing their beliefs on the other.