Try to imagine what it would be like if you landed on a planet of fools who imagined that foolishness was thinking and they had plans to save the world that would lead to its destruction. You might just find yourself getting just a little bit craZy tooooo. Just think if you were riding on the back of a steer in a stampede headed off a cliff. Do you not think your asshole pucker factor wouldn't show some slight elevation? You don't have to be insane yourself to be affected by insanity.
Try to imagine that not everyone is the same among those who identify themselves as conservative. Where does the line start that makes one conservative and then immediately subject to all of the accusations we read about here? Why do you think just because one is to the right of you, they have a mental illness?
It just does not add up so easily. You seem to take the worst among the right, and apply that to everyone, which then provides your brain an easy and comfortable way to dismiss anything they say.
You are protecting some emotion inside yourself if you need such a crutch to handle so many tens of millions of people who happen to have a different world view, yet if you were to sit down and meet one or two of them, you would surely think they are very much like you with the same wants and needs in life. The struggle for these wants and needs and its commonality among the right and left is greater than any differences, wouldn't you agree? If you were to take a typical liberal and a typical conservative and visit some tribe in Africa for a week, what differences do you think the tribe would find between the two?
And as always, I imagine you sometimes make the easy, and quite understandable, mistake of thinking the Republicans you see on TV or read about online are in any significant way representative of true conservatism. They are not, having whored themselves to the religious right. True conservatives don't even want religion in the same paragraph, let alone sentence, as religion.
Of course I could be wrong, I don't pretend to know someone to such a high degree just because I read some of their posts online and thus think I am qualified to psychoanalyze an entire political leaning that comprises tens of millions of people. Now THAT... would be crazy and a sign of mental defect.
In short, we are much more alike than different, way more than you would probably be comfortable admitting to. And I think if people could be honest about this, we could put aside this stupid sport of partisan bullshit and turn our eyes back to where they should be.... Washington DC.