No Don, your problem is that you came expecting to read a bunch of liberals agreeing with your own views.

As I go through the forums, I see lots of people on both sides.  I'd argue that of the people who regularly post, most are liberal.

In fact, looking at the top 20 users, about half are left of center and the other half about right of center.

I don't, btw, consider it a "plus" to confiscate money from one group to pay for the health care for another.

I want to add one other thing: The only reason why JU isn't overwhelmingly full of left of center people is that some of the more prolofic posters in the past have either gotten banned or asked to leave because of their intolerance for other points of view to the point where they would use heavy amounts of profanity and make personal attacks from thread to thread against those they disagree with.

One tactic I have noticed from some left of center people here is a tendancy to try to intimdiate or harrass those they oppose into silence. 

Bakerstreet: Indeed.  I find there there to be a lot less tolerance of conservative ideals by liberals than vice versa.  The amount of Bush trashing that occurs on JU is pretty major.

I also find that liberals, though when confronted, sometimes demand their opponents silenced.  That the mere presence of conservatives is enough to drive them away. 

That said, I think that the conservatives in the blogsphere, generlaly do better because they tend to stick to it.  I give credit to Wisefawn because while I strongly disagree with her views, she at least sticks to her work -- though she's removed a lot of her articles which blunts her effectiveness.

But popularity online depends on staying with it over a long period of time.  Left of center bloggers either flame out (Mikimouse for instance) or just fade away (Wahkonta).

Props to Stevenadalous who has built a solid library of articles. I wish there were more writers left of center like him.

Shades - more recently a couple of people did get banned.

Mikimouse (I was on vacation when that happened so I am not sure what happened) and David St. Hubbins who is about to get unbanned to see if he can get along better.  But both were prolofic left of center writers but both, IMO, showed an amazing level of intolerance towards views that didn't agree with their own.

Maybe because conservatives are used to being the minority in these kinds of situations that we're used to having to tolerate views that differ from our own.  Most political communities tend to be left of center whereas most lone blog sites tend to be conservative.