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"all across europe there are only 100 or so people who even remotely agree with my viewpoints"

Or at least bother to post about them to the blogs you frequent. I suspect your figure is incorrect, because I could easily point to 100+ people in arch-conservative Colorado Springs who would have no problem with your viewpoints...most of them living within a dozen blocks of my house...

by asdf on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 12:49:33 PM EST
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But that's just evidence :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 12:52:08 PM EST
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Tut tut, anecdote...
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 12:55:43 PM EST
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I was being self-indulgently pithy :-) - IF we were to verify asdf's very plausible claim, that would be evidence, something rather regularly neglected by some people.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 01:05:48 PM EST
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asdf:
100+ people

That being all of the progressives in El Paso County? ;-)

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 01:30:13 PM EST
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god, I don't think I know 100 people in the whole of London and Essex. Let alone know their politics.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 02:18:26 PM EST
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An advantage of living in a community labelled as conservative hotbed is that it gets a lot of extra attention on controversial matters. In this particular case there has been for some time a program to encourage discussion on matters of particular relevance to the GLBT folks that takes the form of yard signs that one may set up in one's front yard. The signs have a picture of a dog that says Moo! because he or she was "born different," the point being to open up the question of whether homosexuality is an inborn or an adopted characteristic.

Many of my neighbors have such signs in their front yards. Some of them are gay. One could in theory be an anti-gay conservative and have such a sign, but in practice this is not likely. There are dozens of them in my surrounding neighborhood, therefore I could ring doorbells and construct a list of 100 people who support Helen's viewpoints.

http://www.borndifferent.org/home.html
http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200609290001

by asdf on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 06:55:24 PM EST
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That whole campaign strikes me as being incredibly odd!  Does it get people talking? Without people's signs being kicked down or bricks through windows?

Ad astra per aspera
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 07:00:59 PM EST
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Well, it triggered an attempt at a backlash by Focus on the Family, but the main point was understood by most people. There's relatively little bricks-through-windows around here, partly because we live in a police state so most people are terrified of getting in trouble with the law, and partly because there is significant gun ownership and one always risks being shot at...  :-)
by asdf on Thu Nov 27th, 2008 at 09:29:30 PM EST
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