zepoodle wrote:
There are some perfectly tolerable conservatives on this forum. They're still wrong, but meh.
The issue is that, due to extreme peer pressure and an overwhelming liberal majority, the only people who brazenly express conservative opinions are generally those too stupid or arrogant enough to keep it quiet. And because they value volume over logic, they stand out more.
And I hate this whole goddamn conservative/liberal dichotomy anyway. In Australia, the liberals are the conservatives. Conservative should really be presented as opposed to reformist, since that's where the distinction is.
/agree mostly, except the part about living in Australia. That's ******* retarded.
Conservatives being the minority definitely makes it hard for the little guys/gals to speak out. I think you see a lot of people post from an adopted middle ground stance when it comes to politics if they're trying to be effective. In order to get the internet to listen to you, you've got to appeal to liberal ideas some. Also, most people don't really strongly identify with the political parties anymore. I think you see a lot more voting decisions being issue based instead of party based. Hardly anyone pulls that party lever any more.
but ya I'm sure a lot of conservatives do brainwash themselves in that Cartman/Kanye way. I'm sure there are liberals that have themselves just as brainwashed convinced that every conservative wants to hunt down and kill minorities for sport/only post like retards on forums.