Thanks for your expanded thoughts. Lots in there. I’ll only comment on this one briefly as it is time for the office:
“Most liberals are just...wrong. They haven’t thought things out, they are still watching the news and reading the newspapers, accepting their reporting as unbiased truth, and are generally uninformed in many ways.”
Most liberals would say the same about conservatives ... that at best conservatives are uninformed and indoctrinated by Fox news. Of course I think they are wrong - easy way to prove is to have them explain a conservative’s view on any topic, and you will find out rather quickly they give the leftist version of the conservative view, not what the conservative actually said or stands for. I know many conservatives who read/listen to the opposition; most liberals only read/listen to liberals and leftists. (There are exceptions of course, but they are exceptions.)
True. The difference is: They are wrong. We have history, precedence, and facts on our side.
When Libs and Lefties say Socialism is the only way to go, we can rightly say “Show me where it has worked. Are you paying attention? Do you know your history?”
When they say that Tax Cuts are counterproductive, we can show plenty of instances in which tax cuts result in revenue increases through a variety of mechanisms, where they can show no support for their view.
And so on. You get the idea.
We, as conservatives, MUST engage in this exercise of constant introspection and re-examination of our viewpoints, which is not only necessary, it is healthy.
Granted, we do it because we are subjected on a daily basis to a firehose of people telling us how wrong and evil we are, and it is a positive sign that we take the time to evaluate our positions on things.
The Left, in their echo chamber, engages in no such activity.
In summary, I don’t agree that we have a mirror view of each other, Left and Right. To say they view us that way is absolutely true, but...that does not make it rational or correct.
Only one side can really be right, and that happens to be us...the Right...:)