# I think the far right is getting younger and smarter. Look out. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 2, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019 "2012-07-02T18:46:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019/21 "2012-07-03T06:01:34Z")
What makes you think they’ve got anything to do with MRAs? They don’t seem interested in anti-feminist, from a quick look over those sites, and I’ve never seen them linked to from any MRA sites either. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019/22 "2012-07-03T11:52:28Z")
> [@Terraplane](#): > > I think maybe you’re seeing them in places where they tend to circle the wagons and congregate, and that’s giving you an impression of them that won’t hold up anywhere else. I wonder sometimes whether there are more wackos now than there used to be, or whether they’re just more visible due to the Internet. It’s bad enough that they can associate with like-minded crazies more easily and that conspiracy rumors can be disseminated far more quickly than in the past. However, I know this one weird trick that will render them powerless, just send me $50. Conspiracy theorists _hate_ me. ---
**Author:** ![gunnergoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@gunnergoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunnergoz)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019/23 "2012-07-03T13:24:26Z")
Seems like wishful thinking to me. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019/24 "2012-07-03T19:38:39Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > What makes you think they’ve got anything to do with MRAs? They don’t seem interested in anti-feminist, from a quick look over those sites, and I’ve never seen them linked to from any MRA sites either. It might be the other way around, actually. Amerika does blogroll In Mala Fide and Spearhead, two of the hardest-core anti-feminist sites. ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019/25 "2012-07-03T20:55:27Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Nothing stands out to me, actually. I think basically they’re verbal, idea-oriented guys who have been taught to be ashamed of their verbal skills, and they’re looking to put up an alpha front by talking about tough manly power and slamming down “facts” and “laws” in authoritarian manner with no room for debate. You know what makes me an angry young white man? When people overuse/misuse the term alpha when trying to describe human social habits. There’s plenty of of stupid and ridiculous propaganda presented in an uncompromising fashion from left wingers on the internet as well. I’ve encountered both far right wingers and far left wingers who think 9/11 was a conspiracy carried out by the U.S. government. Both sides seemed equally dismissive of people who disagreed with them. Would it be a better world if everyone were as informed, intelligent, charming and dashingly good looking as I am? Of course. But high functioning idiots and mild lunatics exist, and it’s not terribly surprising that some of them would occasionally get together for a mental circle jerk where nobody makes fun of them. It’s probably better that they are doing it on a public internet forum than in a bunker full of ammunition in the Montana wilderness . ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019/26 "2012-07-03T22:55:18Z")
Considering the Internet’s ability to make past activities on there to haunt you for the rest of your life, if any of those bloggers (who usually would reject traditional Republican free-trade/interventionist stance incidentally) attempted to run for office or got appointed, Huffington Post, ThinkProgress, and the like would be on their asses within seconds. ---
**Author:** ![dngnb8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@dngnb8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dngnb8)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019/27 "2012-07-03T23:01:54Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > What may be scary is that the right is [breeding faster](http://www.isteve.com/babygap.htm)than the left. > > Anecdotally, I see this to be true in my own circles. My conservative friends appear to have more kids than do my left-leaning friends. Eventually, there is likely to be more of them, so it seems. It isnt that they breed faster, they just dont get an abortion when theyre pregnant ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019/28 "2012-07-03T23:17:30Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > What may be scary is that the right is [breeding faster](http://www.isteve.com/babygap.htm)than the left. And this is frightening, because as everyone knows, current trends can be linearly extrapolated into the future. All children of angry conservative blowhards grow up to be angry conservative blowhards themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019/29 "2012-07-04T00:22:26Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > And this is frightening, because as everyone knows, current trends can be linearly extrapolated into the future. All children of angry conservative blowhards grow up to be angry conservative blowhards themselves. > **[CPAC Boy Wonder Now A Liberal?](https://crooksandliars.com/scarce/cpac-boy-wonder-now-liberal)** > > CPAC Boy Wonder Now a Liberal? This kid who gave a speech at CPAC a few years ago no longer believes any of the crap he spouted there. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019/30 "2012-07-04T15:45:28Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > It might be the other way around, actually. Amerika does blogroll In Mala Fide and Spearhead, two of the hardest-core anti-feminist sites. I looked at those two sites and… well, ick. it seems they think “pro-man” means “anti-feminist”? the best men I know are also feminists. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019/31 "2012-07-04T15:49:34Z")
> [@Ibanez](#): > > It’s really insulting and sexist to imply that if the message is comming from only men, it can’t be taken seriously or even listened to. The movement is just starting but here’s a [woman](http://www.youtube.com/user/girlwriteswhat). who’s a MRA. I’d like to see you go toe to toe with her. 😃 > > Release the hounds… thanks for the link, since I now know what MRA is. I had no idea - and the backlash has been going on for decades. ---
**Author:** ![gunnergoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@gunnergoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunnergoz)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019/32 "2012-07-04T16:20:54Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > What may be scary is that the right is [breeding faster](http://www.isteve.com/babygap.htm)than the left. That magazine clearly never heard of the US Latino community and is more interested in pondering its own white christian evangelist navel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019.md?page=1)