The problem is, we've been thinking like this for the last 40 or 50 years. Why? Because most conservatives really are nice people who just want to be left alone to live our lives and raise our kids as we see fit. However, our tendency to avoid conflict over key issues affecting the weave of our social fabric and our flawed thinking concerning the willingness of the left to allow us to coexist along side them has cost us dearly.
The better we learn our lesson the better off we and our children will be. We can't afford to lose anymore and we have a lot of inches to regain to even get back to what used to be the middle. Just remember that the whatever the "middle" is will always be defined by the wherever we all stand at the moment and never take into account how much we've already lost. We have given away our way of life an inch at a time because it will never be enough until it's all their way. I wish it were not so, Carlo.... but it is.
A lot of this is projection. Being nice, we thought they were nice too, but they aren't. Being dishonest, they think we are dishonest too and so easily justify their behavior.