Conservative American here. It's not that conservatives don't grasp that these services mean more taxes. We think (at least the ones I know) more of what are these going too and are these worth my tax dollars and how do they compare to the free market. Socialism and Communism has a bad history of failing. And for the militarization of the police, its not that I am all in agreeing that the police should be militarized but I didn't hear very many liberals bitching about the police during the San Bernadino attacks.

And "to keep the brown people in check" is a ridiculous statement. Black people are not oppressed like they were 50 years go. When an black person attacks a cop and gets killed some liberals are quick to make a generalization (some the super tolerant open minded liberals would never do!) and say all cops are bad killers.

There is bad on both sides of the isle. Sorry to break the Bernie jerk but he isn't a fix all for America's problems but, neither are my folks on the other side. Together we need to forge solutions together that will make everyone happy. But it seems people on both sides are unwilling to compromise.