Why do we allow the Communists to create our games and write the rules?
Excellent question.
The only thing I can think of is that too many people on the right-—in DC, especially-—buy into the lefty charge that we are “morally inferior” or at least insensitive while the lefties are the truly moral ones.
In DC, where everything is liberal-controlled and there is a constant lefty slant to everything, including the social life, I can see social pressure affecting the thought process of all but the strongest conservatives(ex: Jim DeMint). So a tendency has grown up to go on the defensive and allow the left to define us and, as you say, write the rules.
We all need to grow a bigger pair, DC “conservatives” in particular.