# Right Wing message boards and my 8 year journey into and hopefully out of it **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 19, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-wing-message-boards-and-my-8-year-journey-into-and-hopefully-out-of-it/985791 "2023-06-19T21:01:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-wing-message-boards-and-my-8-year-journey-into-and-hopefully-out-of-it/985791/81 "2023-06-23T02:03:58Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Well, all those (humility, indecisiveness, naivete etc.) could be true, but the main emotion I hear personally is disbelief. Over and over and over: _how stupid can people be? Surely not **this** stupid!_ Exactly!! Every day since November 2016, I wake up and think “obviously that was all a bad dream,” until I realize that, somehow, it was (and is) for real. That many millions of my fellow Americans really are that stupid. I still can’t believe it. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-wing-message-boards-and-my-8-year-journey-into-and-hopefully-out-of-it/985791/82 "2023-06-23T12:32:18Z")
Still plenty of Trump flags flying in my neck of the woods, even after all that has happened. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-wing-message-boards-and-my-8-year-journey-into-and-hopefully-out-of-it/985791/83 "2023-06-24T13:55:06Z")
I’m sort of stuck in Denver for another week or two. Have not seen any Trump flags. None near where I live in the mountains either. My home is 100 miles east of Denver. Perhaps, _perhaps_ there is some sanity returning. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-wing-message-boards-and-my-8-year-journey-into-and-hopefully-out-of-it/985791/84 "2023-06-24T16:47:08Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > My home is 100 miles east of Denver. Surely you mean west. You live up in the mountains, right? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-wing-message-boards-and-my-8-year-journey-into-and-hopefully-out-of-it/985791/85 "2023-06-24T17:08:03Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Surely you mean west. You live up in the mountains, right? Yeah. Embarrassing. I’m at my deceased mothers home in Denver taking care of things. It’s my home now . And I have my real home 100 miles WEST of here. I have an office set up in Denver, as well as my real home. The days of the week have become completely irrelevant. And there is a close cousin in Denver that is a step away from death that I’m helping out with. So I go back and forth. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-wing-message-boards-and-my-8-year-journey-into-and-hopefully-out-of-it/985791/86 "2023-06-24T17:46:59Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > This is why it’s pointless to engage with conservatives. I disagree. It’s pointless to engage with conspiracy theorists, regardless of their political beliefs. It’s pointless to engage with science-deniers, regardless of their political beliefs. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-wing-message-boards-and-my-8-year-journey-into-and-hopefully-out-of-it/985791/87 "2023-06-28T22:02:12Z")
Why are you saying “I disagree” and then agreeing with them? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-wing-message-boards-and-my-8-year-journey-into-and-hopefully-out-of-it/985791/88 "2023-06-28T22:17:55Z")
Science deniers and conspiracy theorists exist on the left also. They’re less common but they exist. Just look at RFK Jr. (Though I suspect he’s [drifting to the right of late](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Letter_to_Liberals), despite his history of being a defender of the environment.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-wing-message-boards-and-my-8-year-journey-into-and-hopefully-out-of-it/985791.md?page=4)