# Is the SDMB an echo chamber? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 9, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-an-echo-chamber/771190 "2016-11-09T13:40:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 145
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-an-echo-chamber/771190/145 "2024-11-07T08:15:17Z")
Yes (((( yes yes yes I think this is very much true and also I don’t always mind that. That being said, to say that some of us aren’t very welcoming to posters with a different view is a huge understatement. > [@Now what should people on the left do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-what-should-people-on-the-left-do/1009778/167): > > I live in an area in Ohio where lots of folksy, low-income people live. > > They used to vote vote Democrat. But now they vote Republican. > > You need to study on why they switched. And it’s not because of racism or sexism or whatever. And when you discover the reason they’ve switched, there may be some hope for the Democratic Party. @Crafter_Man said this in the [Now what should people on the left do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-what-should-people-on-the-left-do/1009778/166) thread and I think it bears repeating. I mean, we all know what the maga crowd thinks and wants but clearly we’re missing some insight into what _normal_ Republicans are thinking. I don’t recall ever having a problem with most folks on the right until numpty trumpty foisted himself upon us. I may still have disagreed about a given issue but I wasn’t mad at them because of their political affiliation. slight hijack: I don’t know of a non-clunky way to refer to non-maga Republicans --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-sdmb-an-echo-chamber/771190)._