There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives

I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed?

There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.