Re: "conservatives appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason"
Just listen to these folks and their rants about "total government control over our lives"! They actually believe this nonsense, as if the constitution didn't exist and regulations designed to prevent fraud and excesses are equivalent to Soviet style command and control. Further, they deny science on climate change and promote nonsense like intelligent design, and then they wonder why liberals scoff at them.