Only in a culture where the intellectual climate is overwhelmingly liberal is it possible, IMHO, to think that the conservative position is indefensible. Of course there's reasonable reasons to be conservative. It's all about what values you uphold. I don't think you are so self absorbed that you truly believe that everybody who doesn't think exactly like you are idiots?
i think that you... really don't understand how the terms 'liberal' and 'conservative' and 'left wing' and 'right wing' apply differently to the US than anywhere else in the world.
the US does not have any mainstream politically liberal presence - not in the news media, not in the pop-culture, not in the general zeitgeist, not in tradition - nothing, nada, nowhere. zero politically liberal politicians exist (and whatever marginalized one-off name one might try to cite to counter that point just proves it), zero narrative from a liberal perspective thrives.
the US has a moderate conservative party that is pro-business, anti-worker, militaristic, and largely concerned with maintaining a functional status quo for the purposes of enriching the wealthy at the expense of everyone else, while at least paying lip service to pretending to try to progress the social order for the good of all, sometimes, if it's not too much trouble.
and then the US has a completely bat-shit pack of theocratic nazis who operate on the premise that the idea of government itself is invalid on a conceptual level and the purpose of government is to dismantle itself, and that for-profit business and jesus will sort everything out.
in the US, politics is not about a question with two sides having different ideas about how to solve it.
"hm, health care is a problem in that millions of people can't afford it and are getting sick and having their lives ruined by it. what should we do to fix this?"
Democrats: well we could think about expanding medicare, or introduce a public option, or reform to the medical industry... ooo or, we could give the insurance industry one of the biggest corporate hand jobs in the history of the human race and sell it to the public as making it so *everyone* has health insurance! bingo"
Republicans: LYNCH ALL THE NIGGERS
explain to me how you have a reasoned debate on a topic when those are your two options.