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Clearly you have your mind made up. It is interesting, if strange, that you seem to reject the idea of democracy: "we don't decide truth by a popularity vote". Actually I totally agree, though isn't that an elitist position? Anyhow I came to Conservapedia to become better educated about conservatism and to learn how to edit in this environment. [[User:Timber|Timber]] ([[User talk:Timber|talk]]) 20:25, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
Clearly you have your mind made up. It is interesting, if strange, that you seem to reject the idea of democracy: "we don't decide truth by a popularity vote". Actually I totally agree, though isn't that an elitist position? Anyhow I came to Conservapedia to become better educated about conservatism and to learn how to edit in this environment. [[User:Timber|Timber]] ([[User talk:Timber|talk]]) 20:25, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:I'm a strong supporter of [[republicanism]] and [[natural law]] (see John Locke, for example). Like the founding fathers,[https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/413142-the-united-states-is-not-a-democracy-and-it-wasnt-meant-to-be-one][https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/07/sorry-liberals-america-not-democracy-better-way/] I prefer that to democracy, which is 51% majority wins irrespective to natural law. However, this is tangential to this discussion.
:Thank you for being willing to learn -- I did that for three years on Wikipedia before I started here (I'm still at WP, for the record). CP, as the name suggests, is a conservative encyclopedia, from a conservative point of view ([[Conservative|definition of conservatism]]).
:You '''need to understand''' that CP is a ''massive'' target of vandalism -- it happens multiple times a day, from all types of vandals, whether blatant or subtle. We're strongly on the lookout. If I seem aggressive, it's because I've dealt with thousands of editors already who try to make our articles read like ''The Guardian'' or at least a watered-down version of Wikipedia. Thus, it's essential that you be more cautious when editing. We don't differ from your political/cultural views (whatever they are) merely on superficial, meaningless matters (like defense spending levels) -- the trend today is that people on the Left, Right, and Center (the latter often agreeing with the Left) disagree even on basic foundational presuppositions. --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 23:21, 17 April 2019 (EDT)