Is Atlas a right wing forum?

[Dazey]

I say yes.

[H. Ross Peron]

No (normal).

[OSR stands with Israel]

Back in 2004 yes but today it is left wing

[Lief 🗽]

Center-right, yes.

[Beet]

Depends on the issue. For the most part no. For such a demographically homogeneous place, it's remarkably non-right wing, actually.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

It is idiosyncratic - there isn't a Centre left hegemony - but the forum is weighted towards Democrats, who are left on the American spectrum.

[Ebsy]

It is idiosyncratic - there isn't a Centre left hegemony - but the forum is weighted towards Democrats, who are left on the American spectrum.

Oh, but didn't you realize the ongoing battle between the "True Leftists" and the Hillary Hacks over whether Hillary Clinton is a neocon warmongerer was just the latest attempt by the mods(centre-left hegemony amirite?) to pacify the forum population at large after the collapse of the flagship program, codename UPDATE.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Definitely not. It does tilt libertarian, but I'd say that at present it's center-left overall.

[SWE]

Most posters here are liberals, so yes.

[Mechaman]

We have some posters who seem to think that the deaths of millions of Southeast Asians is not at all important or relevant to the legacies of a couple of presidents.  I would say yes.

[MATTROSE94]

Back in 2004 yes but today it is left wing

Atlas Forum was actually pretty right-wing until after the 2006 midterms. I remember seeing posts from 2005 and early 2006 that were saying that George Allen would be the Republican nominee in 2008 and defeat Hillary Clinton by a Reagan 1984-style margin. What's kind of funny is that even the forum Democrats agreed so. In addition, it also seems like there were slightly more Republican members of the forum around 2004 and 2005.

I would say that the main factors behind the shift of Atlas Forum more to the left include the defeat of the Republican Party in the 2006 midterms and the 2008 Presidential election and the changing demographics of new forum members. Beginning in the late 2000s, many new posters born between the mid 1980s to mid 1990s joined the forum that had views that were much more to the left than those of the earlier posters who were born in the 1970s and earlier part of the 1980s. I would say that the group of forum members born between the 1970s and early 1980s were more conservative because they came of age during the Reagan era and thus view conservatism in a more positive light, whereas the group of forum members born from the mid 1980s onward is more liberal is because they came of age when George W. Bush was President and thus view conservatism more negatively.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Didn't Robert E. Lee have a net FF vote in a poll? Maybe we should  redo that one.

[TNF]

Most posters here a liberals, so yes.

[Rockefeller GOP]

A group of true leftist fringe posters, foot soldier Democrats, independents who are almost unanimously left of center and a minority of Republicans - most of whom are socially liberal - is RIGHT WING?!

Lol, okay.  Thankfully for the world, the vast majority of people don't take some of you guys' fringe views seriously.

[Mr. Smith]

Too much Barry Goldwater love and gun rights love not to consider the idea.

[SATW]

A group of true leftist fringe posters, foot soldier Democrats, independents who are almost unanimously left of center and a minority of Republicans - most of whom are socially liberal - is RIGHT WING?!

Lol, okay.  Thankfully for the world, the vast majority of people don't take some of you guys' fringe views seriously.

[Mechaman]

A group of true leftist fringe posters, foot soldier Democrats, independents who are almost unanimously left of center and a minority of Republicans - most of whom are socially liberal - is RIGHT WING?!

Lol, okay.  Thankfully for the world, the vast majority of people don't take some of you guys' fringe views seriously.

Okay seriously this is probably closer to the truth.  But I got a persona to perpetuate, DAMN IT!

[Oldiesfreak1854]

If you could call Karl Marx right-wing, then you could call this forum right-wing, too.

[morgieb]

It does have libertarian leans, and CrabCake is correct the left here is extremely broad, but obviously not.

[ingemann]

I would argue that Atlas is not so left wing, as it's anti-conservative on the social value scale.

[RFayette]

LOLno, but we're such a small community of active posters right now, so the demographics might change if/when traffic increases.

See my analysis of all posters here:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=210444.msg4557046#msg4557046

Basically, the "average" member is ideologically a King, RINO Tom, bedstuy, or ModerateVAVoter (while they are of different partisan stripes, their ideologies are fairly similar).  My hunch is the average "poster" is probably something closer to TDAS04.

[justfollowingtheelections]

I'm not sure if I would call it right-wing but many of the Democratic party supporters that post here are incredibly reactionary.

[RFayette]

I'm not sure if I would call it right-wing but many of the Democratic party supporters that post here are incredibly reactionary.

We have more socially conservative Dems here than socially conservative GOPers, but I wouldn't call them "reactionary."  Weirdly as a libertarian, I find myself agreeing with them a lot with the way they frame and discuss issues.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

I would classify this place as hard-Christian right, considering criticism of religion is verboten. 

[RFayette]

I would classify this place as hard-Christian right, considering criticism of religion is verboten.  

There are very few fundamentalist Christians on here (though a surprising # of Mormons), and the R&S section is not representative of Atlas as a whole.  

I know you're being facetious, but there are so few Biblical literalists here that compared to the US at-large, this is Heretic Country.