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So I hear this... but it never seems to make sense to me. Conservatives and liberals are in a vaguely 50/50 split population wise, and one would expect them to

So I hear this... but it never seems to make sense to me. Conservatives and liberals are in a vaguely 50/50 split population wise, and one would expect them to flock to news sources that cater to them. Liberal news media seems to have more total sources available, however, the conservative sources are larger. For example in TV it's NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN vs Fox. but last month Fox News hit record numbers, and was the most watched primetime network. > No conservative I know or have heard from feels like Facebook is on their side. So as a conservative, I always thought Facebook was a place to read things from my family & sources that I follow directly. I didn't imagine them to have a 'side'. This view of conservative america as some kind of embattled minority is very strange to me. We own the Senate. We own the presidency. We are the majority of the Supreme court. We are not the underdogs.

rayiner 6y ago
> This view of conservative america as some kind of embattled minority is very strange to me. We own the Senate. We own the presidency. We are the majority of the Supreme court. While half the country might be conservative, liberals control key junction points in the whole system. The people can send Republicans to Congress and the Presidency in a landslide, but the laws are ultimately implemented by an unelected bureaucracy, which is overwhelmingly Democrats. (Trump won just 4% of the vote in DC. He won 19% of the vote in New York City, by comparison.) Elected officials communicate with constituents through the media, 90%+ of whom donated to Clinton. Nearly every professor at Harvard identifies as a liberal: https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14469 https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14469. And now, there is increasing concern that online platforms are headed in the same direction. That's a big problem, because that gives liberals tremendous control over the means conservatives use to talk to each other. When Twitter can keep people from direct messaging a New York Post article to each other, or lock the account of the duly elected administration, that correctly alarms people.
- tzs 6y ago
  > The people can send Republicans to Congress and the Presidency in a landslide, but the laws are ultimately implemented by an unelected bureaucracy, which is overwhelmingly Democrats. What is stopping Republicans from getting those bureaucratic jobs too?
  - dctoedt 6y ago
    > What is stopping Republicans from getting those bureaucratic jobs too? Many of them aren't especially attracted by quaint notions of serving, you know, the public.
  - akvadrako 6y ago
    I think they just don’t want them. Maybe because one can make more in private industry, or they don’t like dealing with bureaucracy. Same with being in academia.

rayiner 6y ago

> This view of conservative america as some kind of embattled minority is very strange to me. We own the Senate. We own the presidency. We are the majority of the Supreme court. While half the country might be conservative, liberals control key junction points in the whole system. The people can send Republicans to Congress and the Presidency in a landslide, but the laws are ultimately implemented by an unelected bureaucracy, which is overwhelmingly Democrats. (Trump won just 4% of the vote in DC. He won 19% of the vote in New York City, by comparison.) Elected officials communicate with constituents through the media, 90%+ of whom donated to Clinton. Nearly every professor at Harvard identifies as a liberal: https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14469 https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14469. And now, there is increasing concern that online platforms are headed in the same direction. That's a big problem, because that gives liberals tremendous control over the means conservatives use to talk to each other. When Twitter can keep people from direct messaging a New York Post article to each other, or lock the account of the duly elected administration, that correctly alarms people.

tzs 6y ago
> The people can send Republicans to Congress and the Presidency in a landslide, but the laws are ultimately implemented by an unelected bureaucracy, which is overwhelmingly Democrats. What is stopping Republicans from getting those bureaucratic jobs too?
- dctoedt 6y ago
  > What is stopping Republicans from getting those bureaucratic jobs too? Many of them aren't especially attracted by quaint notions of serving, you know, the public.
- akvadrako 6y ago
  I think they just don’t want them. Maybe because one can make more in private industry, or they don’t like dealing with bureaucracy. Same with being in academia.