LetsRun - the only segment of the runner population I know that's conservative. I go to an athletic club or Whole Fo

reading sucks wrote:

White whining wrote:

I really hope that your can shut up with your victim mentality now that Trump is elected and the Congress is republican.

Reading about how emotionally abused you've been one would think you're a black man in the 50's.

Can you promise to stop whining about how political correctness is burning your house down and lynching you wife and take accountability for your own shortcoming now?

Probably not.

Nothing in his post indicated any of that. Try reading it again calmly.

You must new here.

I was talking to DiscoFairy. Try to keep up.

Nsnsns wrote:

LetsRun - the only segment of the runner population I know that's conservative. I go to an athletic club or Whole Foods or to anywhere where people are interested In health/fitness, and its overwhelmingly educated open minded people

Though there is wiggle room for other interpretations, you seem to have meant "it's" or "it is" where you wrote "its" and you failed to end your sentence with a period. Perhaps you are a conservative posing as a non-conservative to make the non-conservatives look unintelligent.

Sure thing wrote:

Yes, the left is very open minded.

liberals are not the left.

sock puppet wrote:

Canada wrote:

Honest question: How do you know your demographic?

Seriously?

Ya seriously - you can guess, based on the threads etc about the demographic, but do you really know? That is only representative of the posters, not of the readers. How many lurkers are here every day? How many kids in highschool? How many lower income readers who didn't have the opportunity to go to college? The list goes on.

White whining wrote:

reading sucks wrote:

Nothing in his post indicated any of that. Try reading it again calmly.

You must new here.

I was talking to DiscoFairy. Try to keep up.

You salty, lol

I shop at Whole Foods, go to an athletic club, have a master's degree and am conservative. Would you assume just because I shop in WF I'm liberal?

wejo wrote:

Most people on LetsRun.com are educated. We have an upper income college demographic.

The official who I voted for thread showed more supporters of Hillary than anyone else. Someone could be conservative and still vote for Hillary but here are the numbres:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=7845857&page=14

If the people were counting correctly:

Clinton - 118

Trump - 79

Johnson - 13

McMullin - 6

Stein - 5

Maturen - 1

The day of the election and the day after in the google surveys we asked "who did you vote for?" Trump, Hillary, Other

HIllary was #1, Other #2, Trump #3

I think your premise is wrong. You say, "anywhere where people are interested In health/fitness, and its overwhelmingly educated open minded people" and seem to imply that conservative people can't be into health/fitness or educated and open minded.

Most conservatives tend to not be as vocal and probably don't respond to these polls, that is part of why people assume that "everyone" they know is liberal. Conservatives are the silent majority and what they called this election the invisible voters.

+1 to nearly all of this.

I would like to clarify one point though. I marched peacefully in one of our major cities this week. I did not chant anything or destroy a bit of property. People of all ages, wide income range, education levels and races were out there doing the same. People like me who don't like Nancy Pelosi, safe spaces, any type of sexism, denouncing successful companies and hatred of any race as much as the right were out there.

It was not a protest of the results or for impeachment. DJT will be president and while I find him a repulsive person, I truly hope he does well. I was out there to help physically remind him he now leads and represents both halves of the voting population. Many of us also feel we have no voice in the legislative branch and that gerrymandering has caused that.

Especially concerning (to me at least) are the flunkies in his inner circle and ideological vultures lining up to use him as a puppet to try and turn the entire nation into an economic version of Kansas while trashing the environment in the process. I can't believe the majority of people in this country actually want Palin, Gingrich, the Breitbart guy, DJT's kids or Giuliani in powerful government positions. The policies of career politicians from rural areas such as Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence, etc. have been rejected for decades by many of us and will continue to be. DJT now needs urban areas to cooperate with him as much as he needs the base he appealed to during the election if he has any hope of being successful. (This goes both ways as urban areas need rural areas much more than many on the left recognize as well.)

I'll personally send him a congratulatory hand written letter if he 'drains the swamp' by making congressional term limit and mathematical districting laws and overhauls campaign finance to eliminate business and lobbying contributions. Heck, he could send quite the message to the 'swamp' and gain a lot of popularity by nominating Merrick Garland on Jan 20.

DiscoGary wrote:

Nsnsns wrote:

LetsRun - the only segment of the runner population I know that's conservative. I go to an athletic club or Whole Foods or to anywhere where people are interested In health/fitness, and its overwhelmingly educated open minded people

Let's play "find-the-hypocrisy".

I found it where you bolded his words

BigGuyBob wrote:

DiscoGary wrote:

I have waited 30 years to see something like this coming from the left... and I'm not joking. If this kind of wisdom could catch fire on the left, then there really would be some hope that we could find common ground and finally "get along" with each other.

Tis true. Always surprises me that we don't see a meteoric rise from a third party candidate who can speak to the middle and galvanize the electorate against the fringe elements on either side of the political spectrum. Easy access to social media should be able to overcome the control of the major parties.

I think that is what Trump was. He is more of a moderate and a pragmatist than an ideologue. That is why he won this election.

I don't honestly think it's been like this for thirty years....

Beyond that, though, this is why you may not have heard that much of that recently:

This election result has emboldened those on the left who have felt that way. (And I truly do feel that way). My voting record for presidents (including primaries) is Obama, Obama, Obama, Sanders, Clinton, and if I said the above statement from Seyta at my old work (in Silicon Valley), I might legitimately have been fired. (I say that because I saw people fired for semi-similar things.) I would definitely have been anathematized and ostracized.

I got into a heated argument on election night because I wouldn't condemn the majority of Trump supporters in the midwest and conservatives in general as misogynists, racists, and bigots, among a group with a median education level of a doctorate.

For the past 10 years, I felt quite sorry for my center-right friends, when many of the elected officials of the Republican party had swung so far right that they'd basically been abandoned. While the left hasn't swung so far politically, culturally we may have swung even further, and I'm not sure what can correct it.

Also, the worst Trump supporters do behave awfully; that wasn't a mistake on Seyta's part. They don't have much cultural traction (at least, that I run into), but they definitely exist. You can't (rightfully) condemn our fringe and then not do the same to yours.

Wejo, you should know that the way your message board is moderated makes it appear to be "severely conservative," in Mitt Romney's term. Only threads with a conservative slant don't get deleted; threads with a democratic slant get deleted very quickly. So, people reading the board get the sense that this is not only conservative but far, far to the right.

Conservatives are backwards. They tend to be very illiterate and ugly from all the inbred sex within their families. This is true.

Democrats get what they deserve for playing identity politics for so long. They have been successful in manipulating narcissistic urban dwelling children, narcissistic college aged children, and minority groups into thinking that they are the party that to support means that you are smarter and holier than thou. Now unfortunately these children have in turn become the identity of the party.

Wonder how many protesters will take an interest and vote in mid-term elections? I'm guessing supporting democratic senators and congressman doesn't provide the same opportunity to project a social identity as does a presidential campaign.