It used to be that conservatives understood my positions. But now, they’ve moved right, and that contributes to centrists like me gradually being left out of the discourse altogether.
I haven’t moved to the right. If it looks like I have on a particular issue, chances are good that I’ve always been there. The liberals, however, have moved to the left.
I felt horribly guilty for over a decade after my father died, which had reverberations for a significant part of my life. But I did not feel guilty after my mother’s death earlier this year. Neither of those means I’m doing it wrong.