I hate to break it to you, but you are the ideologue here. You may profess otherwise, but you, on [at] every opportunity, always take the left position.
You're entitled to believe what you like, naturally. I would guess that from your point of view, there is quite a lot that appears to be "the left position".
I think that
every ideology offers little more than a set of blinders and a sieve for the brain to strain out what it doesn't want to see, hear, acknowledge, or understand. That said, I'm certainly not an antigovernment libertarian, which is the direction "conservatism" (however that may be defined at any given moment) and the Republican party have been drifting in the U.S. for decades.
I think that government has a legitimate purpose. I think that it can do too much or too little; can be good or bad; can act in ways that are more positive than negative and vice versa; etc.; and requires evaluating specific situations, actions, and both the positive and negative consequences that frequently result from any action; rather than wholesale praise or condemnation, support or rejection. I think that people of
most ideological persuasions have legitimate concerns which are discounted or ignored by those that embrace other ideologies—which is a huge impediment to communicating and problem solving.
No matter the person, politician or otherwise, I can
usually find things to both admire and criticize, depending on the individual. I also think that nearly every politically charged term has been stripped of any useful or generally accepted meaning. They mean what individuals
want them to mean—usually based on their ideology.
In any event, I don't really care what the opinions of me might be outside of family, friends, and business associates. The perceptions of those with whom I have close personal interaction matter to me. Judgements made based on what I write here, don't concern me.