it's all relative, dan. i notice a lot of sf fans are pragmatic, and
independent. we don't necessarily hew to dogmatic party lines.
jm
It's true that Sci-Fi fans are not randomly sampled from the general
population. But, I have two distributions that I was considering when
I made my statement:
1) I considered the historic Brin-L distribution. We had two people
who took the conservative side of the issue more often than not on this
list. Both are effectively gone. This list has characteristics, and
conservative is not among them.
sometimes take reactionary conservative, and libertarian positions, and
sometimes progressive, or radical marxist positions.
jm
But, as you noted elsewhere, your general position is against the broad
middle of the viewpoint of the US. That sort of viewpoint is not
unwelcome here. I think it is safe to say that folks who see a lot of
reasonableness in mainstream Republican ideas do not post much here.
One of the folks who has, in the past, has characterized me as the most
conservative person on Brin-L.
how did you get to be an obama delegate?
jm
I showed up to the precinct caucus and was elected a delegate to the
county convention. _That was a nightmare._ It took almost 8 hours to
get the delegates and the alternates who were eligible to be delegates
seated. It took only 10 minutes, once this happened, for our precinct
to go ahead and elected one Obama delegate and one Clinton
alternate...which was the inevitable outcome of our precinct vote. I
wish I could find a good villain to blame for the time it took, but it
was mere incompetence.
In Minn, we got that done in 15 minutes....without computers in 1972.
The Texan list members might jump all over me, as did the people at the
convention, but as I pointed out, that's a natural result of the
difference in practicality between Texans and Minnesotians.
Dan M.
sounds like it might be worthwhile to be a delegate and participate in
the process. good for you. i run for local office every two years, in
santa monica, but because i am not part of the machine, i never win.
i wonder what kind of demographics different sf fans fall into. it
seems that they come in a variety of stripes - heinlein liberatarians,
brinlisters, niven/pournelle conservatives, and maybe some
scientologists and ayn rand objectivists...
jon m
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