ol, ul, strong, em don’t display as bullets, numbers, bold, or italic

this has been really frustrating me

ol, ul, strong, em don’t display as bullets, numbers, bold, or italic – if i edit the source of a post and change all the <_strong>s to <_b>s, and <_em>s to <_i>s i can manually get bold and italic – which is a huge headache. i can’t figure out any way to get bulleted or numbered lists in my posts at all – which is an even bigger headache. all of these elements exist in my style.css file, which is here.