
Hi, Domination3000,
You seem like an up-an-coming internet hotshot, who is well into forming his brilliant and no doubt unique generalizations about the world
!!! In answering your question as expressed in the original post, the reason you fail to recognize people whom you would call conservatives on the internet is that there aren't many that you would classify as conservative
!!! The term "conservative" is one of the many titles that have been used within political discourse the the west over the past several hundred years
!!! However, being a conservative is not something one is born with
!!! When people are exposed to the world of politics they find many different binary or quantitative opinions ranging from "how much the government should contribute to school lunches?" to "should the government enact rent control on urban housing?" to "should the government allow trade with foreign nations that mistreat their populous?"
!!! Normally people research varying opinions and make a cool, calm, and well-thought-out decisions about seemingly complex issues
!!! Then, when they have opinions on a variety of issues, they sometimes look for other people with similar values, and if those people use a term (like conservative) to describe themselves the political vagrant may use it to describe themselves
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However, there is another way that young people obtain political titles
!!! Sometimes a young person or a person previously ignorant of politics admires the fortitude or the gusto of a political commentator or speaker
!!! Their entranced young ears clinging to the totality of their utterances
!!! Sometimes someone whom a political virgin admires describes themselves as a certain political distinction
!!! From this, our young listener may grow emotionally attached to the political figure or idea and by extension the title that comes with it
!!! Unfortunately, the maturation of his political repertoire doesn't come from this emotional attachment
!!! He simply learns more words in political circulation like "liberal" or "fundamentalist" or "anarcho-syndicalist" or "egalitarian" and assigns emotions to them as well depending on the stance of his political ideal
!!! This is unfortunate because he feels as if he knows what he his talking about when he tries to speak about political matters, but is really just pouting his emotions and juggling words that have no analysable meaning
!!! His knowledge is incredibly superficial
!!! That is, everyone else knows he has no idea what he's talking about
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Mr. Domination, it is readily obvious to myself and the others of the site that you are of the latter group
!!! Now the reason that you cannot see anyone whom you would describe as "conservative" is not because there are no "conservatives" here, but because to you, "conservative" is a term used solely in social negotiation, and all people whom you consider to be in your "out-group" cannot, by your implicit definition be conservative
!!! If you plan someday on doing something drastic like voting, I have some suggestions
!!! First you are far to emotionally connected to politics; you are not an extension of your political stances
!!! You should then abolish your ideas and reevaluate them one by one
!!! If you are not astute at critical thinking, you may need a friend to run the Socratic method on you
!!! Please just remember that public policy is SERIOUS BUSINESS and if you are involved to impose an ideology rather than contribute to the common good you are valueless as a political peanut gallery
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Sorry for all the verbiage
!!! I had my night all alone tonight
!!!
All the best
!!!
kulade