Regularly I like to force myself to read conservative and libertarian blogs, partly for my own amusement and partly to ensure that I don’t become to complacent and uncritical of my own views.  It can be a rattling experience sometimes if you’re more accustomed to reading blogs by those with whom you mostly agree–all the more reason for doing it.

Reading the comments on such blogs, however, can be an experience that pretty much destroys one’s faith in humanity (not that I have much myself).  The anonimity of the forum, of course, allows people to reveal their true selves in a way they wouldn’t if they were standing on the other side of the figurative water cooler.  I imagine these guys to be sniveling losers who spend their days in their mothers’ basements commenting on political blogs and masturbating to pornographic anime, though most probably are living lives we consider to be “normal.”

Take, for example, the popular libertarian blog “Vox Popoli.” Ignore, if you can, the blogger’s November 3rd prediction that McCain will win the election and jump right down to the first of 292 comments.

If Obama loses, I think we’ll see some race riots. If he wins, I think we’ll see some race riots. The difference is, if he wins, the blacks will burn their own stuff. If he loses, the blacks will burn whitey’s stuff.

Yeah!  That’s what blacks always do, right?!  SO TRUE!!!  But another commenter objects…

Wow, you fail at racism. Everyone knows that blacks will generally burn their own stuff irregardless of a win/loss. See: L.A. Riots, Katrina, numerous NBA championships, continent of Africa, etc… ;)

Why can’t those blacks be a peace-loving race like us whites?  I mean, did you see them burning their own stuff when Katrina hit?  It was amazing they could keep the fires going with all that water everywhere.

There are also many perfectly reasonable comments that I might not agree with, but so many of these people are just living in their own sad little world.

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