What's up with all the conservatives on here?

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I see this thread has developed a life of it's own. Not sure if anyone answered the question.

Don't be fooled by the name "Liberal party" as here in Oz we call them the LNP (LIberal-National coalition) or conservatives or simply the coalition.

They are made up of a spectrum of "types" but they all share conservative social and economic values that revolve around few things
1) The individual is paramount so taxes are bad thing since why should those who generate wealth have to pay too look after the poor or invalid (the latter include the disabled)
2) education is not a right, only if you pay for it
3) health is not a right only if you can pay for it
4) there is a class system made up of those who are educated, have wealth and own land/businesses and those who don't
5) the environment can bounce back after you dig everything out of the ground, jobs are more important trees and the carbon pollution
6) The country is English speaking Anglo-Celtic and the culture should be protected from immigrants

So if you fall on the right side of the above divide you naturally vote conservative, however in recent years (including the last federal election) we are getting working class people who think because of points 5 and 6 they should vote conservative. Since the 1990s we have only had one left wing government. Australia is truly a poster boy for neo-liberalism.

Case in point is that I'm probably the only Aussie on WP who dares to support left wing ideals

RetroGamer is not thrilled with conservatives, either.

I know plenty of people who aren’t into guns but are super pro gun and oppose all gun control.

If you support gun control then you support attacks on me and taking guns away.

Just like most pro abortion people when surveyed said they’d never use abortions. They just support others being able to.

Wonder how fast a “what’s with all the liberals on here “ thread would be shut down by mods.

I think we are in the minority so it ain't gonna happen

Most people are being fairly civil. We haven’t degenerated into personal attacks...yet.

Most people I know and have been friends with are conservative.

"She cant even speak English ! "

Like someone pls explain what the hell on earth after all is liberalism .

I know I'm really late to the thread but:


I've seen a relatively steady drum beat, in a lot of places but quite often autistic forums to the effect of 'Why are you voting against your own interests?' to conservatives.

This video evidences that Van Jones even gets that this argument is a crock:



Really, first and foremost, you should care about what's true, of course I get that not everyone is (heck not even most people are) capable of doing that. If truth is not in line with your interests you might need to refactor your interests or to what degree you absolutely need them resolved if nothing can be done about either the truth or your interests.

That said there are a lot of ignorant conservatives out there. There are a lot of ignorant liberals out there. I like to think that the idiots generally get the hint and find something else to do after a while.

Back to the way Van Jones phrased it - if you see a devout conservative on here and their writing style is high school or better you can make the assumption that they have political, economic, or religious beliefs that make the baggage you see on the right either a bit less or even significantly less than the alternative.

Most people here are liberal,there’s literally only 2-3 actual conservatives here then another 2 non liberals. Everyone else is liberals. Notice it’s just me basically here talking?
Two conservatives are darmok and lovenothate. Dwrmok just posts in the gif bread and one other thread, he hasn’t even replied to this thread.
But there’s easily 10+ liberals posting in this thread alone, so how again is liberals the minority?
There’s you, sweet leaf, auntlabby, tillight,Kraft,saveferris,grand inquisitor,mr bigmouth,fnord,break,asparofme,cyberg,walrus,miss lizard, and Kraichgauer to name a few.

For neither there, me, Pepe, John, Ezra,and vegetable man.

Yelp librals are a minority here
Did you know all the mods are liberals? Not a single right leaning or conservative mod. Alex is liberal too.
There were other conservatives but they were banned or forced out. Dox and raptor.

Did you bother to read the current mod "techstepgenr8tion" post? or "saveferris"

my turn

I think that every kid should be born regardless of how disabled they are. This isn't 1933 Germany.

What does Chelsea Handler have to do with liberalism?

A black woman (not too black) will get elected before a white woman does.

I’m not a “liberal” in all things.

I’m more a pragmatist.