My opinion of why conservatives hold nonsensically inconsistent policy positions

Original post:

Roe vs Wade proved that as a nation we no longer cared about human life.

Someone else's reply:
While I can ...almost, respect that you are coming from, what you believe is a "moral" place. You, and most of your "ilk"  completely undercut the validity of your stance by being pro gun, pro war, pro death penalty, anti child welfare, anti universal healthcare, anti women's rights, etc. etc. 
you are, in other words, complete fakes. You don't give a shot about children, or anyone else, you just care about beating the evil libtards. 
If you did care, you would be advocating for adoption, and contraception. And your party wouldn't be supporting pedophiles like Roy Moore and sexual abusers like DT.

My reply to them:

Fantastic rundown of all the stances conservatives support that are completely the exact opposite of pro-life. However, as someone who used to be one of those conservatives who accepted such political stances uncritically, I would like to take issue with one thing you said, "complete fakes." I agree that applies to the politicians, but that's not where you were directing it. I think most of the rank-and-file conservatives really do believe that all of these positions are the right way to do things, but if my personal experience is any indication, that's only because they 1) don't do enough critical self-examination of whether their stances on various issues are consistent, 2) don't allow themselves to be open-minded or accept the possibility that they could be wrong, instead embracing the simplistic mindset that liberals are just evil, sadistic, hateful monsters, so there's no point in hearing them out to understand why they hold the positions they do, and 3) uncritically and dogmatically accept heavily biased news sources or outright propaganda as unvarnished truth, fueling the confirmation bias of the closed-minded beliefs they already hold.

Why "we need the right to bear arms so we can resist a tyrannical government" doesn't work for me

At this point in the Trump administration, I have less fear of an overtly tyrannical government forcing its will on an unarmed populace, and more fear of an implicitly tyrannical government being actively helped by an armed populace. There have been multiple conservatives (and, for some reason, religious leaders) talking about how an armed revolt is going to break out if Trump is removed from office (which would only happen by due process of law, in the face of overwhelming evidence of criminal activity).

I don't actually think an armed revolt of any significant size is really gonna happen (I think people like that are probably "all talk, no action," just like Cliven Bundy's family), but if it does happen, the impact of it will be made far more severe for the fact that so many people who are ignorant enough to believe that "the Deep State is staging a coup, so we need to save the duly-elected government from the tyrannical shadow-government," have such powerful and dangerous weapons (without the wisdom to use them for the good and proper purpose that the second amendment intended).