It’s a sad fact that countless conservatives misread their own country, the same way that liberals misread the world outside their country and advocate wacky foreign policies. What follows are basic guidelines to be used to evaluate our own country accurately (for a change). They’re persuasive for reasonable people. They’re about the big picture and common sense, not policy details. 1. America is center-right, not hard-right. Let’s assume that one-third of America self-identify as conservative and twenty-five percent as liberal. What about the forty-two percent? What if many of them live in the center? What if a significant number of the twenty-five percent live left-of-center? Horror of horrors, what if a largish number of the thirty-three percent live right-of-center? But how can self-identified conservatives live near the center? Read for yourself. The real question is, how can self-identified conservatives live so far right and scare...(Read Full Article)