I think part of it, is fear of the left, fear of what liberals/leftists/Marxists, will say about us.
Some examples:
1. If you opposed homosexual marriage, you are a bigot against homosexuals. We get put into defense, having to protest we are not hating anyone, but we get put on defense that we hate homoseuxals.
2. If you oppose abortion on demand, as espoused by Roe Vs. Wade, you are said to hate women. And that you want women impaled on coat hangars.
3. If you ever want to cut back spending on government social programs, you are said to want people to be kicked out of section 8 housing, kicked off the food stamp/EBT prorgram, and that you want people to go hungry.
4. If you oppose any aspect of this LGBT stuff going on, you are said to be a bigot.
5. If you oppose affirmative action, you are a racist.
6. If you oppose open borders/illegal aliens, you are a bigot and want people to suffer.
7. If you oppose all this “green new deal” business, you are said to want a dirty environment, you want children in the cities to breathe dirty air, you want them to eat lead based paint chips, etc. Plus you want us all to die of global warming if you oppose what they want to do about global warming.
8. If you favor any tax benefits/tax cuts for any reason, you want to take food out of the mouths of babies who benefit from public assistance programs.
I’m sure there are other issues we could discuss. But the point is, on so many issues, conservatives are put on defense by the narratives, and then we have to defend that we aren’t bigots, we aren’t attacking women/poor people/minorities, and that we do care about the environment.
You have to turn the argument around on them. They call you a bigot because you disagree with homosexual marriage, call them a bigot because they hate Christians and Christian beliefs. Also, any other major religion, Judaism and Islam both are against homosexual marriage. Do they hate Jews and Muslims, too?
Abortion? They hate babies and want them to die. By the millions.
Section 8 housing and other social services keep people enslaved. Do they really want modern day slavery?
In my opinion, the end goal of liberalism is unrestricted sex with children. They are making every effort to get there, especially when they want to teach small children about deviant sex acts and acceptance of crap like “drag queen story hour”. The parents don’t care because they are pedophiles, too.
In other words, we have a sense of shame, and the left uses it against us constantly.