Why do American SubSimmers more often than not..

[SteamWake]

America as a nation is center right.

[AVGWarhawk]

the military shows a traditional trend towards the conservative side of the political spectrum

99.9% agree. Perhaps it follows suit with simulation games that are based around military strategy.

I for one refuse to align my self to any political party.

[Méo]

Originally Posted by OneToughHerring

Well war kind of polarizes opinions. Men tend to think of politics through war. In the US war is a kind of nice and externalised thing

Agree, and the most pathetic thing is that those who take the decision to go to war never really tasted it... all they got is a pretty comfortable point of view.

IMHO war is only cool on pc.

Originally Posted by OneToughHerring

US has never really had warfare on it's soil, or at least not in the modern time if counting civil war and the wars with the native Americans, so their attitude toward war is kind of lighthearted.

On the other hand, here in Canada we never really had war on our soil neither and we're mostly anti-war. So i guess it's part of their culture.

[Skybird]

Canada is not strong enough to have anything to win by waging wars. That's different with the US (see that after WWII the US nbever launched a war aginst an enemyassumed to be of equal military potency). Also, the US was/is driven by a missionising spirit to turn the rest of mankind into something functioning by the american model. the British empire once behaved like that, too. although in the end it was not about civilising all mankind by British standards, but about: wealth, economic dominance, and power.

If your only tool is a hammer, you tend to see every challenge or problem as a nail.

[FIREWALL]

It's really simple. SubSim GT is a political Soapbox with a large audience for some, that can't be heard anywhere else.

They stay in GT while occasionally going to a sim thread to manuver it into a political discussion.

When SH5 is released GT will be a ghost town as it was when SH4 was released.

[Méo]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Canada is not strong enough to have anything to win by waging wars.

I was talking about the canadian people not the about the country. But i 100% agree with the rest of your post.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

They stay in GT while occasionally going to a sim thread to manuver it into a political discussion.

I dont recall seeing any of that

[FIREWALL]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

I dont recall seeing any of that

Yeah Right.

[Shearwater]

Originally Posted by Aramike

I don't see that. I think its about an equal distribution ideologically.

Besides, think about it: people rarely take note of ideas they agree with, having made that their political landscape. On the other hand, when that landscape of green brush suddenly finds itself amongst blue bushes, those bushes tend to stand out and dominate the landscape, regardless of how prevailant they are.

And finally, do understand that even much of the American political left is far more to the right of your average European.

I think that sums it up.
I'd like to add: Maybe it has to do with the fact that a lot of political threads here are criticising government policy, and the current POTUS just happens to be from the political left (at least by American standards, as far as I can tell from my European perspective). To parahrase Aramike in a way: you're much more likely to start a thread about something you don't like than vice versa.
I haven't been on this site during the Bush years, but I can imagine that the rants were just about as frequent.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Rilder

I for one refuse to align my self to any political party.

To paraphrase Will Rogers, I'm not a member of any organized political party either.

(wait for it...)

I'm a Democrat.

[Oberon]

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[GoldenRivet]

You know... i really think it is pretty equally spread out.

I consider myself a right winger

but...

my views

1. I dont want to go to work all day long and pay a boat load of taxes into "welfare" or health care for everyone else. You work for your own health care and welfare as far as im concerned.

2. I want the government to stay out of my firearms... it should be none of their business what i have in my closet.

thats really about it.

[Sailor Steve]

I was one of those hippies...then I joined the navy and went to fight a war...then I protested against that same war...then I laughed at the environmentalists of my day...then I fought for the environment...now I consider myself a Demican Republicrat God-Fearing Atheist Communist Fascist Socialist Libertarian. My views on abortion and gay rights get me labelled a Flaming Liberal, but my opinions on guns and the economy make me a Knee-jerk Conservative. Rush would call me a fence-sitter, but I'm much nearer the right-left-middle than I am to the middle-left-right.

Oh, I don't take drugs anymore (except for the prescription ones, and those only because my doctor makes me), but I am still a hippie - or at least I look like one this week.

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I was one of those hippies...then I joined the navy and went to fight a war...then I protested against that same war...then I laughed at the environmentalists of my day...then I fought for the environment...now I consider myself a Demican Republicrat God-Fearing Atheist Communist Fascist Socialist Libertarian. My views on abortion and gay rights get me labelled a Flaming Liberal, but my opinions on guns and the economy make me a Knee-jerk Conservative. Rush would call me a fence-sitter, but I'm much nearer the right-left-middle than I am to the middle-left-right.

Oh, I don't take drugs anymore (except for the prescription ones, and those only because my doctor makes me), but I am still a hippie - or at least I look like one this week.

Steve, That is the coolest post I have ever read in GT