Political makeup of the board

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  1. Le Chef

    Le Chef Banned at members request Donor

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    I see it as about 50% Conservative, 45% Liberal, and 5% Libertarian.

    I am conservative.
     
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    Overitall Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How would you know since there's no label attached to the users ID?
     
  3. Le Chef

    Le Chef Banned at members request Donor

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    I don't "know." I'm estimating based on their posts.
     
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    So you pulled a number out of thin air. 50-45-5 no less! LOL! You're not a conservative but you are certainly a republican.

    Republicans are no longer conservatives. They don't even know the meaning of the world. I'M a conservative, more than not.

    Example: republicans under trump enacted protectionist policies. Conservatives believe in the free market.
     
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  5. Le Chef

    Le Chef Banned at members request Donor

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    What are you so angry about frigging all the time? The "LOL" is unconvincing. More like COL.

    There's nothing controversial about asking your opinion on the makeup of the board. That's my estimate. If you have a different one, let's hear it. If you don't care, go start a "FASCISM IS HERE THREAD!!!"
     
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    (original)late Banned

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    You could do a poll asking people what their inclinations are.

    MAGA/conservative/centrist/Right wing Dem/moderate Dem/Progressive/Left wing

    Something like that.
     
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    submarinepainter Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I am conservative mostly; I feel libertarian lol but at times agree with R but hardly ever with D
     
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    I'm Independent. I lean conservative on financial matters, but moderate on Social matters.

    Unfortunately, there are a great many on this forum that need, I repeat, NEED to pigeon hole people. They have no clue how to respond to people who do not fit their preconceived labels.
     
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    Very few are conservative, because most Republicans tossed conservative values out the window and embraced populist pseudo-conservatism instead (Trumpism). There are independents too, which you excluded from your estimates.
     
  10. Le Chef

    Le Chef Banned at members request Donor

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    I don't know that it's pigeonholing to say that I'm philosophically conservative, even though I am.

    From that, you can tell in advance how I would react to an initiative to further increase the debt, stack the supreme court, boycott Israel, allow prison inmates to receive sex reassignment surgery as a right, award reparations to descendants of slaves, forgive student debt, defund the police or legalize heroin and meth.
     
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    Pigeonholing is when they call you (insert label here) because you lean Conservative on, say, the debt, but they slap that label on anything and everything you discuss, regardless of what you actually post.
     
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  12. Le Chef

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    I'm sure no one here would do that. :rolleyes:
     
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