I was alerted to (tip of the propeller beanie to National Review) a fascinating article on match.com today. Guess what one of the primary site engineers has to say about its users’ politics?
“Conservatives are far more open to reaching out to someone with a different point of view than a liberal is.”
This didn’t surprise me out of the chute, simply because it matches my experience. Some of my best friends are liberals. Heh. But the more I chewed on it today, the more I started hearing relevant crosstalk with this post. After all, you can easily be friends with someone who’s merely mistaken, but not with someone who’s just a bad person.
Rush has some fun with this from time to time, calling his audience “mind-numbed robots” and what-not. However, this is typically the comic setup for devastating validation that it is far more liberals who are lockstep drones, not conservatives.
The Republican Party would do well to embrace the “larger tent” that is waiting for it. The longstanding obsession with social issues, particularly at the federal level, is unhelpful, and I think there’s some evidence of realization there. A great many of us are reach-outin’ sort of people, and if we can genuinely rally diverse support around fiscal discipline, then our beloved country shall be better for it. What interest has this match.com engineer in misleading? I can’t see any. So maybe there’s something to the claim?
Maybe it encapsulates a primary impetus for saving the United States of America?
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