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if you want to believe that fiscal and social policy encompasses all aspects of government, i'll play along for this thread... but no further.
i never said conservatives were in the center. frankly, i don't feel it's likely that conservatism is mainstream at all. however, liberalism in its current iteration is so alienating to many people that conservatism is their last refuge.
what i said was essentially this: liberal philosophy isn't shared or welcomed by many. don't pretend that it's a lack of political deftness on the left or clever maneuvering by the opposition... it's that it has been rejected. i'm not suggesting that anyone give up their philosophy and place it on the altar of political expediency. what i am saying is that you can't have it both ways: you can't hold a position that people dislike and expect to get elected. there seems to be this feeling of entitlement that seeps through at times. as if the country were obligated to grant liberalism political legitimacy by virtue of the obvious intellectual superiority of those who promote it. stay as liberal as you want, but don't kid yourself into thinking the country must follow.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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