Right Wing News has a post about creating a grassroots type of movement, called appropriately enough, ‘rightroots‘. The lengthy post goes on to talk about why it probably wouldn’t work for a variety of reasons.
IMAO touched on why he believes it won’t work either. I think his reason is rather humorous:
If I can be Allahpundit for a moment, I’d like to pour some cold water on these big plans because I think any big effort to organize conservatives will run into trouble because of the fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals:
Conservatives have jobs.
Real jobs that produce goods and services and add to the economy. Jobs that gives conservative real satisfaction at the end of the day so they don’t have this hole that needs to be filled with political activism.
I have a slightly different take on it though. In RightWingNews’ post, they mention sites like Digg, Fark and YouTube as far left magnets. I would have to agree for one reason.
Conservatives tend to be more rational. In other words, mobs don’t appeal to us.
Seriously, I used to follow Digg, but then the nutjobs got a hold of it and turned it into a hate fest. Rational people generally don’t fight back, we just leave. That is why I think talk radio is so big for the right, we don’t need to bask in the mob mentality. Listening to the radio means actually listening and I don’t know of anybody that listens to the radio is big groups.
Now, take a site like the DailyKos and they feed off of that hate mentality that drives mobs, and in their case, traffic. Now yes, there are a few right wing nut jobs, but you really don’t hear about them do you? The far left are all over the place. Some are just wackos while some are very well funded and organized (ACORN, MoveOn.org come to mind).
Ironically, my wife told me the other day that I was a far right wing guy. Funny, I always thought of myself as more right-centrist and independent. She says it is because I find all this information on the net. I say I’m just staying informed 
So should we not organize at all? I don’t think that is the answer either. I think we need something, something to get the word out more. Something to get the collective thought together. Not sure what that is though.
What do you think?
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October 30th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I’m not sure if I want to cosign the “mobs don’t appeal to conservatives” idea, because there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary. I won’t even cop to conservatives always being practical and level-headed on the Internet, either.
What I will say is that the problem with conservatives right now is that the game plan has completely changed: you are not alone in still thinking you’re a moderate, right centrist who has, in fact, gone far right. Over the last eight years, the nation has been polarized: Republicans have gone far right,and Democrats have gone predominantly far left. Remember those words? Republicans and Democrats? It’s hard to, because they’ve been replaced wholly by the words Conservatives and Liberals.
Maybe our problem isn’t one of rational versus irrational (it usually isn’t, when both sides say the same thing about one another.) Maybe we need to learn from the successes of past moderates, and get back to compromising some of our demands for the sake of the needs of the many, in order to win their votes and support.
October 30th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Fair enough dave. There are certainly those on the right that do tend to have that ‘mob’ mentality, but I see it far, far more from the far left for whatever reason.