Sadly, I think you're right. I think they like the idea of there being extreme winners and losers. They aren't really conservatives, they're extremists. Conservatives are generally the well-off, who want to maintain the status quo because the status quo has been good to them, or because they're the victims of authoritarianism who are just afraid of change, generally. But most of the self-described conservatives on TOL aren't really conservative at all. They're right wing radical extremists who want change, but they want to change things back their fantasy of the 1950s, or back to their fantasy of the 1850s, or even back to their fantasy of 'Bibleworld'. I don't know why they call themselves "conservatives" at all, because they generally hate traditional conservatives (calling the RINOs) and traditional conservative ideals. They align more with modern neo-cons who have more in common with nihilism than they do with conservatism.