I was watching channel four news last night, and a writer of a famous right-wing blog was on there claiming that mainstream politics and media does not reflect the views off the majority. According to him, the majority of people in this country oppose stuff like immigration and our ties with Europe, and support capital punishment. I’ve come across this arrogant point of view before, and would like to address it. There is no silent right-wing majority whose views are being somehow suppressed in the mainstream. Mainstream politics and media is liberal (with a small L) because the vast majority of people in this country are liberal and tolerant people, although, to be fair, you could debate which is the cause and which is the effect. By and large, however, although we could at this point get all bogged down in Marx, I think it fair to say mainstream politics must reflect majority views simply because that is how people vote. many in the right-wing blogsphere delude themselves into thinking they represent a majority viewpoint, when, in fact, they represent the views of a tiny minority of numpties who make the rest of us feel embarrassed. Their views aren’t mainstream because, thank the FSM, the rest of us have thought about the issues at hand and realised how philosophically barren such views are.

Sometimes writing a blog can give you an inflated sense of self importance, and you think that, because people read your entries, people like and agree with what you say. Blogging gives one a sense of power. I know my blog is probably only read by my friends and family – who else would want to read my inane rantings? – but in some, their hitcount goes up so quickly, and they get such supportive comments from the idiots who read the fascist crap they write, that they convince themselves that they are right. In fact, the rest of us can see that what they spout is bull, and, after reading a couple of entries just for a laugh, disregard such writing as the illogical, ill-thought-through dross it is. Thus there is no silent, repressed, right-wing minority, only a bunch of idiots whose views the rest of us see as shallow, illogical and intolerant.

I hate it when these blogger-types talk so much bollocks.