I don't see a good reason to believe that's true - or at least, whether "conservatives" hold power is strongly function of what place you're talking about, and of what you mean by "power". Remember, not everybody here lives in the US like I assume you do (I live in France, as a first approximation it looks like you're all crazy over there).

That's because, for the most part, we are. It's hard to be sane and rational when all the processes you rely on for data-collection have been co-opted.