Conservatism does not hold up well to reality, thus in a forum of mostly intelligent folks you mainly get conservative trolls (the "I hate liberals and want to piss them off I don't care about the issue-both sides are bad" types and then just your braindead shill who repeats talk radio talking points and ignores all evidence to the contrary when called out.
I watch real Conservatives debate throughout history, and everyone of them fall flat when called out. It's the nature of conservatism, they make their own reality to support the hypocrisy of the reactionary mindset.
Conservatism only exists when the Reactionary propaganda-feeder can debate ALONE. This is why Limbaugh and deregulation of media = the start of rabid conservatism, because he could spin the fantasy-world reactionaries wanted to hear. It's literally Balkanization of US culture from the right.
It's not that Conservatives are too stupid to hear reality, they know they are buying into bullshit, they have no interest in reality. These folks need a leader and a daddy to think for them. It's a authoritarian (to be fair self-preservation) trip some people are on. I guess it makes sense from a evolutionary standpoint to have regressive folks around, I always thought the best of humanity were always the ones brave enough to seek out new truths and challenge their own realities to face what lies over the horizon instead of living in a past that never existed. Reactionary ideas are not my thing.