I agree we should give the poster a chance. I think with time and learning what we actually believe the poster will find they're quite a bit more conservative than they ever imagined.
As an example, in reading the comment about not hanging out with wealthy people so they don't support capitalists, the poster shows an erroneous assumption of what capitalism is all about.
I like hanging out with wealthy people.
Their beer is usually better than mine.
Regarding your comments about "more conservative than they ever imagined", I do find the greyness you find around interesting, as opposed to the black and white of the theoretical chalkboard conservative/Republican and progressive/Democratic differences. I was watching TV not long ago and Buchanan said we need to lower H1-B visas. I stood up and started clapping, I didn't even know any talking head cared about that. I saw Tancredo talk about that later.
Honestly, I am surrounded by conservatives. I live in a very "red" bastion of a very blue wider area. American flags everywhere, church goers, Support our troops stickers on cars. The alpha and omega of me being on the left are my economic beliefs.
Anyhow, I could go off on a bunch of tangents from the whole gray area thing.