(April 8, 2018 at 7:59 am)Hammy Wrote:(April 7, 2018 at 7:10 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Conservatives will vote for a pedophile with an R, Liberals won't vote at all because 10 years ago the candidate voted against a bill they supported.
So somehow being liberal correlates being stupid and foolish with your votes? Who knew!
Oh well, at least that actually has nothing to do with being liberal, and sounds more like the so-called "regressive left" (who are too authoritarian to actually be left) misidentifying as liberal to me.
It's generalizing the voting patterns of a demographic. People in the US who have the characteristic 'liberal' are more likely to have the characteristic of 'not voting rather than voting for a candidate they dislike.' I would say there is very likely a direct correlation.
As for misidentifying, that may be. But we've had a fairly agreed upon definition of liberal in the context of US politics in place over here for a couple decades. The country switching from what it's meant to us for 20+ years to 'what Hammy thinks it should mean' would probably cause more confusion than good.
