CPAC ain't the problem.
This thread is what's known as hand-waving. Classic example, actually.
On the web (elsewhere than this place) and IRL, I get along fine with conservatives. You wouldn't know it from what I post on here *, but I agree with a large part of conservative stuff. But what you have here are a bunch of immature cranky old white men with no friends, apparently, who aren't also immature cranky old white men. Or at least that's the part they play on this board, apparently because they think it's cool.
If they think it's cool, it's for a reason.
Actually, largely it's because the mods let all kinds of crap that would get people banned elsewhere go by, and that allows a culture that, among other things, has complete contempt for actual facts. So, after a while, folks who take the art of investing and trading seriously aren't going to hang out here except on the few serious forums, the Options forum, the Journals forum, the tech-related stuff, and some threads on some of the other ones.
It took me a while, but I finally figured out Economics is just P&R stuff that for some reason is allowed up there, so I don't take that forum seriously anymore either. It's rare to see actual serious discussion of real economics in that forum.
This place could be a lot better, but it needs moderators who know to delete and ban the trash.
*Except my early stuff, before I figured out what I was dealing with on this board; Nazi apologist Pa(b)st Prime got all hot & bothered 'cause he said, as I recall "at first I thought you were one of the intelligent ones". Which I am, when I know I'm dealing with decent people. Very few decent people are on this board.
