# Why have conservatives left this message board?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [April 14, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-conservatives-left-this-message-board/1017016 "2025-04-14T01:14:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-conservatives-left-this-message-board/1017016/190 "2025-04-17T15:55:30Z")

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I haven’t read the thread in its entirety.

The Dopers that _I_ would identify as leaning conservative (and I’d _guess_ they would agree) are reading from the same hymnal as the more liberal Dopers.

We’re existing in a common reality.

With this, all kinds of interesting and thoughtful discussion can and does ensue, informed by different experiences, values, beliefs, priorities, and ideologies.

But the stereotypical MAGA, or even a self-titled “non-MAGA Trump supporter” tends to live in a nearly perfect information silo where verifiable, falsifiable, and quantifiable information either isn’t disseminated, or – if it is – it is so nakedly skewed, and leaves out so much critical information as to be worse than useless. It’s misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda.

It’s endlessly frustrating and seemingly almost never productive to engage with somebody when you disagree on a fairly basic menu of critically important facts, particularly when _you_ can bring the receipts, and they can’t, won’t, and are blithely dismissive of yours.

Since Fox News and Rush Limbaugh – more or less – we live in different worlds. Mine is still reliant on spin but they are also still largely grounded in reality.

For today’s Fox News, Breitbart, Infowars, Newsmax, OAN, and RW podcast consumers who never leave their bubbles or fact-check their own preferred sources, their time on the SDMB will either tend to be painful and totally non-productive, or they’ll just be trolls.

As I’ve said elsewhere, I value the conservative Dopers with whom I’ve engaged. I wish we, and the world, had more.

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