I think you said it well. Conservatives hate groups, liberals focus on individuals. I think that people should be judged individually and not by race, or political affiliation.
Tell me- what's wrong with that? Is that not the ideal?
It must be the group you have met or the area which you live in. The fact is, both liberals and conservatives can act in evil and vicious ways. Both groups can also act as saints.
Unfortunately, people rarely practice what they preach (from the priests of the Catholic Church to the modern "News" agencies which really act as propaganda machines.) Openly liberal Americans are also often a target of conservative opponents. They lack the funding of larger corporations, and are often attacked with "facts" that are totally fabricated, but cannot be questioned, because they will be accused of knit-picking or following "liberal propaganda." Anyone who seems even remotely conservative, therefore, seems to be an enemy, and liberals will naturally put on a defensive attitude, rather than a trusting one.
Conservatives, however, feel that their opinions are natural facts proven by history, their parents, and the Bible/Torah (or in extremely rare cases, the Qur'an.) Therefore, they feel confident and undeterred by facts or statistics released by scientists, historians, or other reliable sources. Furthermore, they have an overwhelming support by their funding leaders, company CEOs and other leadership. Where the liberal's base of support is in the majority, which is split between democrats and conservatives, the conservatives support is a circular support in the big business leaders, who support the conservatives.
Liberals often feel bullied by this attack in the way that the peasantry felt bullied by the noblemen's dual support with the clergy in medieval times. It also explains why liberals are often accused of inciting "class warfare," because that was the method used by the peasantry when they revolted in the times of reformation. In a way, medieval politics are somewhat evident today.
One main difference is that the nobility are no longer God's spokesmen and defenders, but God's Head Financial Advisers, who control our markets, rather than our fates. The other difference is that, where the age of reformation brought widespread political anger in the peasantry towards the upper 3% (clergy and nobility combined), the clergy of the modern age has fallen to the power level of the peasantry, but it's population has increased to the size of it's counterparts. The clergy of the new age act as the nobility's support; the nobility being the new 1% of the world's power.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.