Have you ever lived anywhere else besides where you live now?

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I know of some but I'm quite sure that like you they are not comfortable expressing it openly.  That's too bad.  

No doubt these tough, non-snowflake conservatives can grow a pair and show up. Jeez, I've taken a good dogpile or ten in my day, and I'm just a weebly centrist.

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(That was probably ATheist and Alphamale, who came to these forums to be confrontational)

But yeah, this isn't a very friendly place for conservatives. Sometimes they drift through and mostly end up quitting pretty quickly, only so many times someone can be called a cunt and a nazi and want to stick around and have a friendly conversation with the rest of the forum. I also think it would be a little more interesting with more varied political opinions on here.

When you consider the name-calling that the two you mentioned -- and Drich as well -- practice in defense of "conservative" values, it's easy to understand the knee-jerk reaction. I stamp cockroaches too, if I see 'em. And if the bug looks like a roach but isn't, sorry about your bad luck, maybe next time paint yourself brightly or something.

I do try to give every n00b the opportunity to make or break himself, but some things -- racism, sexism, authoritarianism -- yeah, I'll swing around and take a broadside. Such is life on the internet. You land shots and take hits. You'd think that tough-guy conservatives could hang in there, right?

The fact that the three conservatives on here are pretty much a step above trolls, and are here for the name calling (as you point out) just shows that there is no real conservative thought be discussed here.  The problem with saying 'I'll be nice to everybody except for racists and sexists" is that for some people the definition of those words have been expanded to such a degree that it's easy to paint anybody you don't like as a racist or sexist. I mean some people say all Trump voters are racist or sexist by default (10% of Hispanic women voted for Trump). That means that you can never have a conversation with one to find out what they actually believe because they are automatically in the category that you won't talk to.

You'd think that open minded progressives could have a conversation with someone they disagree with.