@kaiserkiwi Hmmmm, interesting. I've experienced this also.
Funny thing is, I grew up fundamentalist Christian conservative, so very right (although the right wasn't nearly as far right wack-a-doo like they are now), and this was the number one argument that Republicans had about Democrats over here in the US. They would always say that the Dems were bad because they wanted to "control your thoughts" and "tell you how to talk" and this is where the whole idea of "culture wars" stemmed from.
I'm no longer Republican nor conservative, but it's kind of interesting to see that the right wingers were actually kind of right on this front. The biggest enemy that the left actually has is itself in so many cases. If they could just agree with the same cohesiveness as the right does, they'd be a lot more formidable.