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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsthe shadow "conservative" universe
Now, at one time "conservative" was not a pejorative word. Today, in general English language usage, "conservative" is a marketing euphemism for fascist, or some other sort of political madness, pathological often. I am not a comic book enthusiast, but i think Superman (or someone) had a bizarro doppelganger universe, so that "bizarro" is an adjective for some strange non-reality. Also, we know from British politics, and elsewhere, the party out of power often assembles a "shadow" cabinet to mirror the current one of the other party.
Wikipedia is a quick internet introductory resource of attempted community accuracy on topics. Many of their articles are copied from a century old Encyclopedia Britannica, which was considered as having a very high standard of accuracy. Wikipedia, sometimes goes overboard in trying to footnote details; at times, on contentious topics there is a battle to propagandise, sometimes it is one sided, some people want truth, and some want their preferred version. On subjects such as, say, the scotch pine, or the poetry of Longfellow there is no real battle. But, there exists a purely propagandistic alternate called 'Conservapedia'.
We all know, that Rupert Murdoch runs News Corp, and Fox in such a manner to shadow a mainstream press and broadcasting. We understand there is a site called 'Free Republic'; but what is the shadow site 'Conservative Underground'? Also, what sort of derivative audience do they have?
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)which gets its forecasts from the Biblical Meteorological Service...obviously to mock the fact that conservatives no longer trust science, reason or logic and to show how absurd their disdain for these things actually is.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)They live to be assholes.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)Warpy
(111,270 posts)and sequester them away from the real world permanently. That way we could get on with repairing the country without their obstructionism.