Forum becoming more right-wing?

I've noticed a high ratio of right wing posters in most of the threads lately - some threads in the current events have entire pages of right-wing posts with no left-wing counterarguments.

Not sure if the mods shifted to more conservative and more liberals are getting banned or what - but ideally I'd prefer a forum like this to be about 50/50 so that the discussions are interesting and there are people to debate with.

 

I debate left-wingers here the most, and lately it's getting boring because I'm seeing more and more lefties banned and fewer people to debate with.

 

Imo, wingers are not interested in debate

 

The country is changing toward more conservative thinking and values after the disaster that is Obama. Maybe you are just seeing that reflected in this Forum.

 

Imo the so called obama disaster will be seen in a different light after republicans have to start taking hard positions and who ever comes next... Isil is not going away and if we put lots of boots on the ground, we we remember why that was not a good idea... Likewise if we bomb iran

 

Boots on the ground is certainly a bad idea with Obama at the helm. Luckily he hasn't the balls to do it. We'll have to wait it out until we elect a REAL commander in chief.

 

I would not call myself particularly left or right wing but equally I'd never consider myself to be socially conservative. To me it's the socially conservative issues that are the real emotion drivers on sites like these. Let's face it that portion of the right has suffered some major blows recently like the recent same-sex marriage issue which I used to argue on here a lot.

Visiting the LGBT section, it's like all the argument leading up to the USSC decision never happened and is being relitigated ad nauseum. It's not only that isssue there are others but to me that one engaged many and highlighted clear divisions not just between the socially conservative and socially liberal factions but also between social conservatives, libertarians and moderates of which there are a great many in the real world.

I imagine it's hard for more socially liberal people to find a reason to stick around right now. You'll get the ocassional militant on either side of the isle who'll just want to remain to twist the knife on any given subject but many, myself included, pick a subject we think has some resonance, argue that subject as best we can and then move on when there's no reason to stick around.

I still read the forum, I may even pitch in again some day if I can find somethng vaguely relevant to say but, for now, it's away to Margaritaville!

 

It is a bit, but I find that many of them are nice enough despite the bigotry.

 

Oh the left are still there, they just cant argue against any of the recent issues since they are on the wrong side. I counted three leftists who raised their hands in support of Hillary after the latest email facts rolled in...the rest of them have now been forced to admit what we knew all along Hillary will never be President because of Hillary not us. Lol theyre gonna run Biden. Kinda hard to bop around a forum while thats goin down.

 

we feel the same way despite the left calling the enforcement of our immigration laws bigotry.

 

I think it's a small minority of the left that want open borders, but most on the right AND left are bigots.

 

Really? So you want obama to enforce our immigration laws?

 

Not really. But I wouldn't care if he did.

 

to be clear...you are stating you dont really care about enforcing our laws. Correct?

 

I care more about some laws than others.

 

A light was shone upon Hillary and the democratic camp. In that light we see Hillary sneaking across her living room with a server under each arm followed by her minions.
Someone yelled "Stop, Thief!!!" The minions scatter.
If she were exonerated tomorrow the minions would scurry out of the woodwork to help her carry those servers down into the basement along with a shovel. Until that time they'll remain in the dark crevasses of the wood.
One things for sure. It's a more interesting show than watching the Orkin Man at work.

 

Wish I could blow everything off with ridiculous, nonsense-filled one-liners, too.

My education seems to stand in the way of that.

 

That person doesn't really seem to understand the things they state.

Earlier I saw this:

 

Shoosh!

 

Its not that leftist forum members are getting banned why we are seeing less of them they aren't around because they keep losing the debate they keep getting humiliated
they lost the argument there wasn't any corruptions in the IRS, they have lost the argument that H. Clinton didn't do anything wrong. these are just two examples of the many debates they have lost and have been totally humiliated on
in case you haven't noticed there is a major backlash in society against all this PC crap the same PC crap that Leftist used to try to win debates and it isn't being accepted anymore it isn't silencing people anymore and because that tactic isn't effective the left has nothing more to use in a debate so they took their ball and went home

 

you just would call Obama a bigot if he started enforcing our immigration laws because who you are calling bigots all they are doing is wanting out current laws enforced

 

They are just bigots regardless of border laws. They'd still be mean and nasty to legal immigrants.

 

I agree with TRFjr, there is so much going on that they really can't argue against.
Hillary, their great white female hope, is looking more and more criminal.... possibly to the point they wouldn't vote for her. Maybe.
But with Barack, and his constant focus on white-on-black crime exclusively, the #blm news presence that never puts them in a good light, the emails, the IRS, the gays and their business-targeting, the clowns they have running for president (hurry up Joe, we need one more to fill the circus car!)... it's no wonder they avoid these conversations.

Add to that, with GC, CP, and A286 all removed.... that means only about 25% as many threads are created every day.

 

This thread is a good indication of why there are fewer "left" members participating. The right-wingers are like a bunch of ignorant mayflies... Doesn't matter how many times you swat them with the facts, they continue to substitute their inbred information sources for reality.

Many of the topics of discussion are simple reiterations of past discussions that feel a bit like beating a dead horse, turning the horse over, and beating it some more.

Then there's the Breitbart spamming and the rather large contingent of Stormfront members who have infected this forum with their filth...

There are plenty of other places to go to engage in discussion and alot have people have taken that option; moderates and those to the left of the political center started leaving about the time the forum lurched right a few years ago.

 

I suppose that you could recruit more left-wing members. In the end, there are a lot more high profile GOP candidates which will bring in more right-wing supporters shilling for their guy. I would attribute it more to Trump at the moment, but as the election moves closer, that will mix up. I usually find democratic shills as insufferable as republican ones and feel no duty or compulsion to engage them if the subject of a thread does not interest me or they are just talking points of the day posters.