This image is how I experience "progressives" as they try to deal with conservatives. They seem to think that we conservatives are too ignorant, or too dimwitted, or too warped to be able to grasp the beautiful "truth" that they have to share.

I am sure that there are conservatives who are thoughtless, ignorant, or psychologically unhealthy - just as there are those who hold to "progressive" positions for reasons that in reality have little to do with those positions. Taht being said, however, the majority of conservatives know what they are talking about, have good reasons to believe what they believe, and are psychologically healthy. We simply have a different starting point - and for Christian conservatives, that starting point is that there is a God who communicates. He may not tell us all we want to know, but he has told us what we need to know in order to trust him, follow him, and grow to be more like him.