User:Crustacean27/The Conservapedia mystery

There is an article on Conservapedia titled "Mystery: Why Do Non-Conservatives Exist." The article claims that conservatives are the rational ones.

The article begins with a claim that "Conservative principles are based on reason," and then ask: "why do non-conservatives still exist?"

What follows is a "statistical analysis" of why there are con-conservatives (AKA liberals) that is actually just estimates made by the author. In fact, all of the statistics they provide are estimates and have no basis in reality.

Strange Claims
These are directed towards how people become liberals:


 * Professors who share their opinions with students are to be considered "Dangerous."


 * South Park, Family Guy, and The Simpsons are turning people into liberals.


 * Movies and TV are the reason that people are not going to church. (Definitely couldn't be the yelling about fire, brimstone, and eternal damnation, right?)


 * Schools reward politically correct, liberal answers on test. (So that's why those history books say that the North won the Civil War.)

Even Stranger Claims
These claims are focused on "Liberal Characteristics" and are extremely biased and definitely over-opinionated:


 * Liberals lack poor abstract thinking skills


 * Liberals are close-minded. (Wait, the people against gay marriage are calling us close-minded?)


 * Liberals are naive. (Liberals buy into Bush derangement syndrome, and react with emotion rather than reason, which sounds awfully like how Conservatives act towards President Obama)


 * Liberals act in a self-destructive and contradictory way, followed by arguments such as " Some choose to do what is irrational " and "Use of mind-altering drugs, which encourages one to become a liberal to reconcile the cognitive dissonance, or dulls mental acuity resulting in mindless conformity." or my favorite "Sexual experimentation to make up for lack of self-esteem..."

A Trip To The Talk Page
Believe it or not, there are actually rational human beings on a Conservapedia. I strongly recommend you taking the time to read it,specifically the argument made by an Independent named James Cartwright, and a moderate conservative ShawnJ.