Reply #21: People will be offended by what I say here, but I think it's true. [View All]

[LoZoccolo]

I feel that it's due to the fact that right-wing activists are much more apt to try to prove their initiative and personal responsibility, because it's ingrained in their political philosophy, than the left-wing activists who have been very content to graze on the Internet and point blame for why they are not getting what they want. I'm not saying that they can't have personal responsibility (and what I'm pointing out here hasn't always been the case, as you can see from the 1960s, or the people who risked their livelihoods to form unions), but when I start threads about how you have to get up and participate in democracy, I get more criticism for my assumption that people aren't doing it, than people talking about what they do and how others can help. I would guess by a factor of five, at least.