Again, why is this forum so left-wing?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Explain to me how is this forum left-wing when it's full of right-wing trolls....

The two have nothing to do with each other.  The existence a number of right wing trolls has no impact on what the majority of the forum is.

A barrel of apples with a dozen rotting oranges in it is still overwhelmingly a barrel of apples, even though it may stink of rotting oranges.

[morgieb]

Explain to me how is this forum left-wing when it's full of right-wing trolls....

The two have nothing to do with each other.  The existence a number of right wing trolls has no impact on what the majority of the forum is.

A barrel of apples with a dozen rotting oranges in it is still overwhelmingly a barrel of apples, even though it may stink of rotting oranges.

That's actually a gun analogy. Well done.

[Free Palestine]

It's not that left-wing.  AH.com is far more left wing than this place, which is on average pretty moderate.

[Vosem]

Explain to me how is this forum left-wing when it's full of right-wing trolls....

The real world is even more full of 'right-wing trolls', which means this forum leans left.

It's not that left-wing.  AH.com is far more left wing than this place, which is on average pretty moderate.

Being further to the right than AH.com is pretty easy (fellow member)...

And, to answer the original poster's question: this forum is so left-wing because it has more left-wing than right-wing members.

[後援会]

On average, this forum is somewhat more left-wing than most left-wing parties in the world. Just look at who people vote for in those mock elections compared to uh, which politicians in the world actually get elected to power. If we voted on say, Aubry v. Hollande, Aubry would triumph. If we voted in a Japanese election, the fringe left would triumph. So on and on.

That being said, I echo the comments that tons of people have already made about there being lots of college students, etc.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Oh, but that's just because a lot of people here are significantly less left-wing than they think they are. Thus hard-left poserism. Which is linked to the age and so on.

[minionofmidas]

The forum isn't left-wing so much as it is liberal.

Exactly this.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Post above was a direct response to the post above - forgot to put the quote thing in. Of course we now have a lot of hard-right poserism as well.

The forum isn't left-wing so much as it is liberal.

Exactly this.

This is basically true, yes.

[Torie]

Ideological balance is not merely a function of numbers in my mind. Hey, I would not care if each and every poster on this site were to my left. That just makes it all the more fun!

[5280]

Ideological balance is not merely a function of numbers in my mind. Hey, I would not care if each and every poster on this site were to my left. That just makes it all the more fun!

I agree with this, give myself a broad view of other peoples ideas and an open mind.

[Vote UKIP!]

This forum does lean left, but it's not populated by anarcho-syndacalist-socialist-communists like AH.com is.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Young, white, male, and generally from a privileged background, makes this forum full of people who describe themselves as "socially liberal, yet fiscally conservative" or "libertarian" or even "Communitarian" (Wtf) even those people like those don't exist in the real world.

[Antonio the Sixth]

If we voted on say, Aubry v. Hollande, Aubry would triumph.

Ahem...

Also, LOL at the idea that Aubry is somehow a crazy far-leftist.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Oh, but that's just because a lot of people here are significantly less left-wing than they think they are. Thus hard-left poserism. Which is linked to the age and so on.

Haha yeah. I used to be soooooooo big into that.

[Gustaf]

As an overgeneralisation, people who are educated and well-informed tend to skew left.

Eh...what? That might be true in some places but not generally.

[Associate Justice PiT]

If we voted on say, Aubry v. Hollande, Aubry would triumph.

Ahem...

Also, LOL at the idea that Aubry is somehow a crazy far-leftist.

     Besancenot v. Hollande?

[Platypus]

As an overgeneralisation, people who are educated and well-informed tend to skew left.

Eh...what? That might be true in some places but not generally.

Tongue firmly in cheek, mate.

[anvi]

What Al said above about poserism.  I honestly don't know where I really am on the spectrum anymore.  I believe in a Bismarck health care system and higher effective tax rates for everybody from upper to lower-middle class, but I also think raising cap gains taxes doesn't make much sense and that discouraging investment in an economy is a bad idea.   I am staunchly in support of the right of gays to marry and of the right of a woman to choose whether or not to keep her pregnancy, but I also have at least some philosophical sympathy for some things in communitarian thought.  So I don't know where that places me and I really don't care much.  I've been accused on this forum of everything from being a shameless leech on government services to an advocate for a "fool's conservatism," so, you know, whatever.  Figuring it out won't solve much.

[Brittain33]

Now that Romney's chances have dropped from about 25% to 5%, it's going to get a lot more imbalanced. I know I didn't want to hang around this site listening to Republican partisans project the election results in October 2010.