Are establishment politics overrepresented on this forum? (US politics)

[Asian Nazi]

Yeah, this forum is full of Beltway hacks and insufferable Moderate Heroes.

[Asian Nazi]

not if you control for age

Yeah, this.  I'd expect this forum's Democrats to be like 80-90% Berniebots based on demographics (young white men/students), but for some reason it's pretty even if slightly Sanders leaning.

[Asian Nazi]

A lot of anti-establishmentism is uninformed (that's not a snide remark, uninformed voters are a vital aspect of keeping politicians in line) and this forum is better informed than most.

Also a lot of people here view politics either as an amusing bloodsport or as a clinical exercice of study.

As usual crabcake makes the best post of the thread.

[Asian Nazi]

Also, to add to Crabcake's point,  low information =/= stupid.  There are plenty of intelligent people who aren't political nerds or even political nerds who don't follow electoral politics closely.  Likewise, there are plenty of dumb people who know a lot about electoral politics, as this forum proves every day.

I'm a commie, and I have a lot of commie friends who are brilliant, well-read, etc. but many of them are ignorant of even the basics of electoral politics (a guy the other day literally asked me how the electoral college works, for example) because they largely don't care about it.  Likewise many people here are really ignorant about leftism or any politics that are outside of the American mainstream, but could recreate the electoral maps of every presidential election going back to the 1800's.  People here are very high information (compared to the general public) and thus are way more likely to vote and vote for establishment candidates.