No, I don’t know “mysterious ways”, or “my country-right or wrong”. Nor do I know about loyalty without questioning, I arrived at the “religious” points I believe in college, taking graduate level classes, when I learned about historical evidences supporting the scriptures (manuscript evidences, a science) , the spread of Christianity in the first and second centuries, and the evidences around the Resurrection of Christ. There was far more than I could spend a lifetime unpacking.
As far as politics, I got most of my ideas in the Reagan era when I was still young and impressionable. I learned SOMETHING from every administration. The last Democrat I voted for was Obama during his first term, because his campaign was VERY positive in an era of partisian politics. Soon, however, many small business owners who HEAVILY supported Obama—people who own specialty shops and small restaurants in the arts community—NOT right wingers—formed the first Tea Party rallies, They played by Obama’s rules and were punished by his polices. By Obama’s second term, he was telling Israel to go back to its pre-1967 borders, and that Christians were just as bad as Muslims because of things that happened 500–550 years ago. During his second term, I saw how radical and dangerous the Obama administation was.
Conservatives have a LOT more information on their websites, talk shows, and networks than I can get from mainstream, alternative, and underground media of other sources, and they have never been wrong.
I suppose MOST conservatives were driven to the sources they use because they were seeking alternative information to find out what was behind the lies and bias our mainstream culture was feeding them through the media. If they were unthinking and stupid they would be following the mainstream CNN, MSNBC and whatever else is piped in their banks, airports, waiting rooms, lounges, food venues, smart phones, cable networks, etc etc
It takes some inquisitiveness and ability to seek truth in order to get away from the drool and pablum endlessly spewing from “mainstream” sources into our society at large.