"Years ago the snobby liberals were my main target on this forum, now I find myself agreeing with them more and more".

Liberal IceMage strikes again! The Agenda is working.

As for the OP, it seems like availability heuristics and confirmation bias are dominating the country's political views. This is of course stereotyping, but it seems like there's a direct correlation between political affiliation and social exposure that results in the trends found within the surveys. People to the right less likely to be a part of unions, be religious, are less likely to have gone to college, and often hear about the "liberal media". People on the left tend to be more often parts of unions, be less religious, more likely to have gone to college and don't hear about "conservative media" as often. So it's not necessarily surprising that people responded this way on the survey, finding that which they're exposed to to be favorable, and that which they have less experience with to be disfavorable.

To some extent, I wouldn't personally label this phenomenon as "anti-intellectualism", but rather false intellectualism. There's a really pervasive manifestation and preservation of ideological and community purity, where many people on either the left or the right believe that their "side" is 100% correct and moral and that any and all opposing sides are therefore 0% correct and moral. It's group-think, but on a runaway train-track. PaRD is even a microcosm of this phenomenon as seen evident with how some people post predominately not about what they do stand for, but instead just attacking what they stand against.

It's intellectually lazy, certainly, and definitely detrimental to our political process.

This post was edited by Handcuffs on Jul 11 2017 05:03pm

The right has go to go beyond opposition mode to rule a country. I'm not sure if they can, from what I've seen.

if you're not trolling you need medical help

I can make a new account and espouse a simplified, dumbed down version of liberal viewpoints. Fox News is doing the same thing. They have some commentators that are legit conservatives, but that does not mean the entire organization is. Their business model is to sell advertisements and to do that they cater the content to their target audience.

Go apply for a job at Fox News and tell them how conservative you are, I don't think they give a fuck. LOL

Ironically that's exactly what's happening on the left right now. It seems like every time i see a democrat politician on TV, it's always permeated with attacks on Trump and resisting no matter what.

I mean the Republicans did the same thing few years back but to pretend they were obstructionists back then but the dems aren't now is just being biased bro.

There's a pretty significant difference, one being we don't have democrats saying they will oppose anything no matter what as long as Trump says it.

and having a main focus to repeal Obama's policies. While a vision for a future is lacking.

We form political coalitions before elections rather than after, like European nations. That is why they are much more politically diverse than US. Liberals and conservatives hang up on the greens and socialists while actual fascist parties exist officially etc. They have elections, then form governments.

We have a spoils winner take all system. Third parties only rise up to replace one of the two. That is why I think the GOP is on trouble, because their authoritarian wing is in control but the freedom/libertarian wing is large enough for their to be a real schism.

This post was edited by Skinned on Jul 11 2017 05:29pm

Meh, they're trying to steal heathcare and harm American families.

The GOP has gotten too Orwellian. How they use the word freedom baffles me....freedom to them is less people with less choices. They say things like school choice when vouchers are created to subsidize religious indoctrination/education, and turn the public schools as dumping grounds for the undesirable special we students that the new schools have the "freedom" to say no too. Taking over the national health department and taking healthcare from people is straight out of the 1984 playbook.



He's right...it is probably run by highly intelligent people, despite who their actual viewers are.

This post was edited by Skinned on Jul 11 2017 05:34pm

i'm wondering how far off to the right you must be to see fox news as a liberal organization