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For the most part the moderate conservatives had their heads handed to them by their own party over a decade ago.
That led to a redefinition and reinvention of conservatism, which has become much more a cult of personality and a fundamentalist faction used as a bludgeon by large and wealthy corporate concerns.

With that achieved it then became a simple matter of using the old familiar weapon, fear, to propagate hostility toward outsiders, and civil discussion soon started to resemble the Orwellian Two Minutes Hate.

Now as "men without a party", the lure of comfortable suburban anarchy in the form of libertarianism loomed large, and the newly coined "independents" found it comfortable to smoke their bongs and chime in about tiny government. After all, Ron Paul thought weed was okay and Ayn Rand said it's hip to be selfish and greedy.

Where did all the reasonable conservatives go? It's more a question of "who sent them packing" and what do these new true believers really represent?
That question is easily answered because the new folks aren't shy about sharing.
And all those "satire" news sites on the internet are scrambling to stay ahead as reality surpasses sarcasm at neck breaking speed.