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Seriously, I have been unfortunate enough to get caught up in the circlejerk of /r/politics, but there exists opposing arguments and anti-hivemind comments--they may get downvoted most of the time, but often they get up-voted for being counter-ideological thoughts.  

I linked over to /r/conservative to see what they're up to these days and it's a highly moderated (says so all over the place) forum where only like-minded individuals can post. Apparently you have to have permission from the mods to even start posting. Reminds me of SRS and other circlejerk subs where you have to be 'in on the joke' to get it.  

So is /r/conservative a joke, or is this an accurate representation of the American conservative movement--that is a movement that (in my opinion) is threatened by obviation and chooses to ignorantly cling to ideological expedient philosophy. (yeah I kinda' got ranty for a bit)
<bot>: is /r/conservative a joke, orvare conservatives  so threatened by getting behind the 'times' that they choose to ignore reality?