Why do right-wingers bother?

[TJ in Oregon]

Ghost_white, you are right about this for the most part and I find it rather depressing. It's something I discovered long ago and have spent too many days worrying about it. It's also infuriating to see stupid conservatives bandy on and on about how great we're going without stopping to look beyond the propaganda they've been reading and see the world for how it actually is instead of what they'd like it to be.

That being said, for why bother, I bother because I do believe that I by holding a consistent view that most would describe as socially conservative and expressing it to the best of my ability I can perhaps make it respectable and build a slight bit more goodwill towards my views than I build hatred of them. I doubt much of anything I do will be very successful in this regard, but I do hope that it's better than nothing at all. I continue to follow the trajectory of our nation's policies because that's part of being a good citizen. I cannot cut myself off from the larger community that is our nation because I still care about it. I hate losing but there's nothing I can really do to stop it from happening. If all the social conservatives in the country stopped caring it would only embolden the liberals to push further faster in their hunger along the arc they call progress. It's a losing battle but the causes that are popular aren't the ones that need people fighting for them anyway.