# The Problem With Being the Good Guys

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-problem-with-being-the-good-guys/921128>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 21, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-problem-with-being-the-good-guys/921128 "2020-09-21T06:29:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-problem-with-being-the-good-guys/921128/4 "2020-09-21T07:22:18Z")

</div>

I started [a thread about this](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-of-the-bad-side-as-shrewder-than-the-good-side/921094) (tangentially) a few hours ago.

I don’t mean to sound “Both Sides”-ish, but as someone who visits a wide variety of liberal and conservative message boards (such as Democratic Underground or TigerDroppings), one could literally take selected posts/comments, delete the keywords to conceal identity, and make people play a guessing game - “guess who posted this, a liberal or a conservative?” and people would really miss 50% of the time.

_“We are the side that is too wobbly while the other side is stalwart and united as a bloc”_

_“The other side cheats and plays dirty and has no qualms, we are too honorable and nice”_

_“Our opponents will stop at nothing to destroy America, nothing is beneath them, they have no shred of decency”_

_“We are soft, they are hard and sharp”_

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-problem-with-being-the-good-guys/921128)._