Sometime ago I read about a guy who said he had a six figure income from selling tee shirts with conservative slogans on cafepress (you can read the article here) . Which got me to thinking about why is it that conservatives spend so much on stuff that basically keeps repeating what they believe.
When I say spend, I don’t mean just money, but also time. Conservative blogs whether on wordpress or elsewhere have dedicated readers. One of the few liberal blogs which has a huge readership is the Huffington Post. If there are other such blogs with a million plus readers, please do let me know.
Now why is that?
One reason could be:
All the conservatives have more money and therefore do not have to work so much and therefore have all the time in the world to congregate on the Internet, whether to promote creationism, now called intelligent design, or to tell each other global warming doesn’t exist or that science and scientists know squat.
But although this may seem to explain why conservative stuff sells, it is not supported by data. Conservatives that spend their time and money are not likely to be richer than progressives, scientists and liberals. At least I can’t find any data that says one is richer than another. I have seen comparisons between red and blue states but every state has both conservatives and liberals so to say blue states are richer and therefore liberals are richer is simply not good logic.
So if that is probably not the answer, then what other reasons could there be?
More tomorrow.
An aside: for all those who think that the globe is cooling (a.k.a. global cooling), Northern Californians now feel the need for fans and air conditioners – ask anyone who can remember 20 years ago or earlier about how cool Northern California has always been. Remember Mark Twain’s famous San Francisco quote?
“the coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco”
I should mention that all Twain scholars are not convinced that he actually said this.
Thank you