" ... ...but...in the middle, where the republicans and the democrats reside...well...there is little to no difference. ...."

This is where we disagree.

What you call "the middle"; I was raised to call it the far left.

When I see President Reagan named as a bastion of conservatism ... there is no hope for freedom or pulling one's own weight.

Ain't a conservative left ... Everett Dirksen died a long time ago.