Meh... this is what is wrong with our system... polemicists who are masquerading as thinking people, where they employ internet debating techniques thinking that everyone is against them if they don't instantly agree with everything they say (I have the same thoughts towards polemicists of the Left as well...). These guys are entertaining and charismatic and lots of people fall for them... but they are nothing more than the equivalent of drunken university debate nights by young proto-politicians.

PS: I would argue that the Right also proposes new ideas (such as in the 80s and 90s, the Right championed ideas that suggested that privatisation would increase efficiencies of government run services, this is from the Australian perspective but I think it holds elsewhere as well). I don't think the Progressive/Conservative idea should be mixed in with an Attacker/Defender (bad words, I can't think of the right ones at the moment) concept!