Would it not be more precise to say, ‘Because society is “moderate to left.”’?
Amen brother! When some angry campaigner comes on here and prefaces their OP with a proclamation of the extreme leftness of this board I role my eyes. In American culture there seems to be this popular equation of any policy not strongly right of center with socialism. Meanwhile there is a lot of very American philosophy (militarism for example) that just seems to be broadly accepted with little questioning.
What I do find is that there is a lot of snarky intolerance, it is the internet after all. Overall I find plenty of thoughtful posts to read and can ignore the crap from the campaigners.
With regards to the OP, there is a desperate need for a rational conservative voice in the US.
No such place exists. If it did, it would either be kept an absolute secret to avoid the attention of the rest of the internet, or it would by necessity be moderated so heavily and heavy-handedly that it would be unpalateable.
Global warming is real and humans are causing it.
Evolution happened and is happening.
Abstinence-only sex ed leads to higher rates of teenage pregnancy.
Any politician who took those positions would be moderate-left at the very least in American political discourse. The thing is, though, those aren’t positions, those are facts.
That’s what Colbert meant when he said “Reality has a liberal bias.”
There are boards that are conservative and/or libertarian in content and membership. But all of them I’ve seen are specific in topic (like opencarry.org).
And none of those are liberal or conservative.
Not in America. In America, opposition to those facts is required to be accepted as a conservative Republican.
No; I chose “reality” purposefully. One of the hallmarks of modern conservatism is how much of what they believe is flat out objectively, factually wrong. They aren’t just wrong about the goals they have for society, which are often more a matter of opinion or morality. They believe things that flat out contradict known facts or are logically impossible, and deny those facts when presented with them. More and more, for conservatives everything from economics to science to history to military policy is to them faith based; something that is “true” because they declare it to be so regardless of the facts. “We make our own reality”.
You’re right, SA couldn’t compete. Gaia has over 26 million members with over 2 billion posts compared to SA with 166,000 members and 132 million posts.
SDMB is 44th in the rankings with 137,000 members and 15 million posts.
It’s the top forum that astounds me though, ConceptArt. It has 376,000 members but their post count is 8,593,255,108! Now that’s talkative!
Surely you’re mixing conservatives with fundamentalists?
**US **modern conservatism.
No; non-fundamentalist American conservatives have the same “faith based” view of the world; they just apply it to non-religious matters.
Yes, that’s what I meant.
I noticed most boards devoted to pro sports lean conservative and usually have a forum set aside for political talk…
I don’t know. Can someone who still, to this day, denies global warming exists be called a fundie?
You’re not likely to find a very active one, conservatives tend to … ya know. Have jobs. 
As a guest who has wondered what a good board is I have found an amazing thing in SDMB, but your not my first, its a little biased to the right, Truth at this place, these are Trolls if your not RIGHT, want someone to call you names for being just a little moderate, want to be ganged and berated, go here katkall.com they will remind you why a good conversation and open minded conversation is so important. Another one with a lot of the righties without sense and no understanding of facts is USMB, they can make you laugh at stupid which is more intellegent than some there, but not all. This is the answer to a question posted in OP, this in no way a reflection of how the people on those boards see themselves, they don’t have mirrors.
100% no.
The other posters are absolutely correct in saying that American conservatives are OBJECTIVELY wrong.
In order for any conservative politician to win, they have to adopt the following positions:
[ul]
[li]Global warming is not man made and it’s not a concern that we need to address[/li][li]Gays getting married will be devastating to western civilization[/li][li]Gays serving openly in the military will decrease morale and make the armed forces weaker[/li][li]Evolution is just a “theory” and intelligent design should be on equal grounds in the classroom[/li][/ul]
There are probably many more positions that are escaping me at the time, but all objective evidence flies in the face of the positions that modern conservative american politicians take up in order to win election.
It’s sickening.
you might just as accurately say conservatives tend to..ya know…not understand the internet.
I belong to a number of gun-related boards, and yep… they’re all conservative/libertarian.
Agree. And let me just say that one of the hallmarks of modern liberalism is how much of what they believe is flat out objectively, factually wrong. They aren’t just wrong about the goals they have for society, which are often more a matter of opinion or morality. They believe things that flat out contradict known facts or are logically impossible, and deny those facts when presented with them. More and more, for liberals everything from economics to science to history to military policy is to them faith based; something that is “true” because they declare it to be so regardless of the facts. “We make our own reality”.