Why are most gamers liberal?

[RandomUser]

even though you are all immigrants.

That is probably borderline asinine thing to say or claim.
Don't confuse birth with migration.

 

[Lacius]

That is probably borderline asinine thing to say or claim.
Don't confuse birth with migration.

I think he means we are all either immigrants or descended from immigrants.

 

[RandomUser]

I think he means we are all either immigrants or descended from immigrants.

That makes sense, especially the descended from immigrant.
Thank you for clearing that up.

 

[Benja81]

Is it possible that conservatives who, as has been mentioned in this thread, may be more concerned with how people view them. Are just less likely to admit that they play video games?

 

[smf]

I think he means we are all either immigrants or descended from immigrants.

Trump said those women should all go back to where you came from, and three of them were born in the US. So you must still be an immigrant even if you and your parents were born in the US.

 

[SecureBoot]

I think the left wing just might be slightly more vocal

 

[osaka35]

Most folks are center. The center is pretty liberal to an uncomfortable amount of folks in the US and other larger countries at the moment.

It's also important to note someone can be fiscally conservative and socially liberal. And you can even be fiscally conservative in certain aspects, and socially fiscal in others. Just two huge categories kind of papers over the complexity of our individual and social needs.

 

[Xzi]

It's a lot more simple than that, I think. Young people who haven't yet endured the hardships of an adult working life and haven't endured the sorrow of significant loss and/or tragedy, are more likely to be liberals, or at least think they are.

This makes no sense whatsoever. The more people get their necks stepped on by the heel of the corporate boot, the more conservative they become? Sounds like Stockholm syndrome taking root to me. The experience has been wholly opposite from my perspective, however: the more I experience and witness the struggles of the working class, the more I lean into Socialist beliefs.

But I'm one of those somewhat libertarian-type conservatives that thinks "conservative" means the government stays out of your personal business, that the Federal government should be strictly limited to the scope and authority given by the Constitution (no administrative agencies, for example), and the government shouldn't borrow money so it can 'support' people with welfare. So I really can't find much to like about the 'platforms' of either major political party.

On the two party system being bullshit, we agree. Modern-day conservatives aren't actually conservative in any sense of the word, and modern-day liberals are largely ineffectual centrists more concerned with maintaining the status quo rather than pushing for real change. Bernie Sanders and AOC get just as much push-back from Nancy Pelosi as they do from Donald Trump. It's frustrating enough that I'm likely to change my party affiliation to Independent soon.

 

[Josshy0125]

Because most people are liberal. Because most people arent stupid.

 

[Godofcheese]

I'm more in the center
I can agree with both sides on certain topics
But I'm leaning more and more to the right because left wing peeps here in Sweden are fucking braindead it hurts...

 

[mattytrog]

I`m not liberal. Then again I`m not a gamer. A gaming world is far too limited.
Being stuck essentially inside someone elses mind? With all limitations that provides? No thanks.

I cannot, for the life of me see the attraction beyond killing an hour with my son before bedtime.

How people can "chat" online with headsets etc etc is just above my understanding.
Get out in the real world people. TV will give you square eyes.

By the way... By "liberal", I`m assuming you mean left-wing.

You know what they say...

If you aren`t a liberal by 20, you have no heart. If you aren`t a conservative by 40, you have no brain.

 

[Pipistrele]

If you aren`t a liberal by 20, you have no heart. If you aren`t a conservative by 40, you have no brain.

Considering some of the current popular trends in conservative movement (particularly climate change denialism), as well as poor history of conservative rulers across the globe in last couple dozen years, I kinda expect this saying to flip on its head eventually

 

[plasturion]

Because they were told they are, but in fact all the people are only conservatives. Why? Because people refer to some expirience from the past, that's enough reason when someone value own freedom and independence. Liberal is the idology to keep people on chain. Conservative promote you automaticly to a prime minister of all nations.

 

[osaka35]

Because they were told they are, but in fact all the people are only conservatives. Why? Because people refer to some expirience from the past, that's enough reason when someone value own freedom and independence. Liberal is the idology to keep people on chain. Conservative promote you automaticly to a prime minister of all nations.

Could you...try that one again? Why make up definitions when there's an actual definition out there.

 

[plasturion]

I don't make any new but only extended meaning actual one.

 

[orangy57]

I think this is the complete opposite case, and the political views of your peers just depends on what community you're in. Most people on GBATemp are conservative and carry beliefs that I don't agree with from my experience. The reason you'd consider most gamers "liberal" is because lots of news sites that also report on games have more left-leaning journalists, which means that their minority is the most vocal since they're the ones that are able to start up commotion

 

[bandithedoge]

Why is that even a question? I can't say gamers are super political. You shouldn't care what people you play with vote for as long as they don't try to shove their opinion down your throat. You're probably very sensitive to things like that or the only game you play is Battlefield V.

 

[Deleted-401606]

Because most people are liberal. Because most people arent stupid.

Most people are stupid and implying that conservatives are stupid just because you disagree with them is rather petty on your part.

 

[notimp]

This makes no sense whatsoever. The more people get their necks stepped on by the heel of the corporate boot, the more conservative they become? Sounds like Stockholm syndrome taking root to me.

Here is how I have that conceptualized.

When people start to have families, or are settling down - for many of them this is connected to some kind of a story about a higher importance and therefore compromise.

So you lie when you have to, you stop to say what you think, you take on corporate hirachies, you play the being promoted game - all of that is the antithesis of 'living a liberal life' - but again it is something that most people, in some form experience.

This - also forms a freaking odd 'bond' - so think of corporations, when you have to do something, that maybe a little cheeky, or wrong - for a project, for a team, for the firm - it kind of locks you into this game - where 'you had to do stuff for the betterment of the corporation, and for your life' - that 'those damn liberals wouldnt understand, why you had to do'.

And you might laugh about it but this moment of understanding of a certain 'fall from grace' is actually pretty important to the conservative ethos.

Sounds pretty abstract - but once you think about that the prerequisite of becoming a wallstreet broker, or a mortgage salesmen were 'ambition' alone (and then maybe people skills) - and then that corporations were targeting people in those 'periods of their lives' to become employees, you are starting to think about that notion a little more (if you are me.. ).

The corporation is more than you are, the corporation can make or break you, the corporation has given you a chance to proof yourself, when nobody else has. Those are pretty standard conservative values. Or set points in their lives, that conservatives might have experienced.

So there is something to that idea.. Its not entirely off.

(Then if you are playing the promotion game within organisations its often about 'getting ahead of your peers', filtering out employees through zero sum games, testing ambition, loyalty, ability to work and outperform under stress, lead, ... All of that is conservative mythos - and it starts at "the company is more than I will ever be". At least with the bigger ones.

In the free software, or hacking movements, we can use none of that. Those pretty much are all red flags for us. Because we improve, if one of us improves, and then shares that with others. Corporate structures kind of work different. (They are all about replicating set states/conditions with different people that were formed to pre-set roles.))

 

[Glyptofane]

On the two party system being bullshit, we agree. Modern-day conservatives aren't actually conservative in any sense of the word, and modern-day liberals are largely ineffectual centrists more concerned with maintaining the status quo rather than pushing for real change. Bernie Sanders and AOC get just as much push-back from Nancy Pelosi as they do from Donald Trump. It's frustrating enough that I'm likely to change my party affiliation to Independent soon.

Hear, hear! They are tricking us out and running us around in circles of non-change with the these two fake parties. I originally switched from Independent to Republican to support the Ron Paul "Revolution". It's still a good basis for my beliefs, although some things have shifted over the years. Now I just want to stop voting, but also want to go back to Independent solely for if and when anyone Googles my real name and finds the voter registration information. I don't really want to be associated with or liable for the nonsense from either side.