What is Mainstream? What is Conservative?

I think maybe the best way to approach this might be: How are people educated and what is their experience.

If you go to ANY public college (State College) in the U.S. you likely are not going to come out a conservative Republican (However, you might come out a moderate Republican). Why is this?

Because public education reflects more the will of all the people and not just one segment. IN public college likely you are going to be exposed to all types of ideas which may be liberal, conservative, independent, Socialistic, Communistic or whatever types of governments there are around the world.

So, you then from your exposure can choose what you believe. IN my case I wound up becoming more of an independent after being raised a Conservative because I saw the importance and value of many conservative points of view and many liberal points of view and many views in between.

And many people come out of college like me as "Free Thinkers" who are capable of critical thinking or "Thinking on their own without help from any ideology or group".

But, many do not and are just sort of a hodge podge of many points of view that they don't really think about much and so become apolitical. But, often these people still vote too in whatever way they choose to after thinking maybe 5 minutes about it in the polling booth.

So, what creates a Conservative Republican? Mostly it is through the conditioning of White parents whose parents were conservative and their parents and their parents on back to the Revolutionary war.

My point of view is that Conservative points of view helped create the U.S. in the first place. However, Progressive points of view (which are sometimes liberal) allow the U.S. to progress forward in meaningful ways without nuking the whole world out of existence.

IF completely conservative points of view were followed from 1945 until 1990 likely the world wouldn't exist anymore because it would have been nuked out of existence by now because of the basic warlike stance of Conservative people.

So, where are conservatives educated? They are educated at home a lot and then carry their conservatism into college with them. They tend to be much more traditional and loyal to family names and lines than other people who might have had to "Scramble" more than conservatives to survive. Conservatives are educated usually in very conservative "White only" areas that haven't been integrated or where people are not educated very much and tend to be more racist in their views. They also if they are going to college might choose religious colleges that do not teach a diverse point of view that considers other religions or philosophies having anything important to say. So, Conservatives in the educations they and their families choose for them is automatically biased with a critical world view of anything not American in the first place and anything not Christian.

Also, conservatives also tend to be Religious people who are Christians and generally not Catholic but more Protestant.  So, they tend to be White Anglo Saxon Protestant or "WASPS" generally too.

So, seeing conservatives as more traditional, more likely to volunteer for the Army or military in some way with relatives in the military back to the Revolutionary war is helpful to see conservatives in this light.

From my point of view we need our conservatives to preserve our traditions and we need our liberals to deal with the changes in the world better so we don't just nuke out the whole world one day from being traditional.

However, Conservatives always are going to be the first to fight in another land, but maybe not for the best reasons always. Because conservatives tend to know less about the world or to have a biased view of the rest of the world based upon conservative ideologies.

So, Liberals might go to foreign lands to get to know people more better and conservatives might go to foreign lands as soldiers more and kill them.

So, why would conservatives be angry at the Mainstream media?

Because mainstream reporters generally go to public colleges and come out moderate to liberal in their thinking because reporters generally are the types of people who travel the world to get to know people and not just to go as soldiers to kill them.

So, could you say that Being Conservative is Being Christian?

Most of the time here in the U.S. the answer to this has to be "Yes". It is a traditional Christian viewpoint that started likely with the Pilgrims who first successfully colonized the U.S. and didn't all die off like other places did back in the beginning of the colonization of the U.S. in 1620.

Their discipline and their ability to organize and survive was the basis of what being American began to be then in 1620.

So, I think to throw away all conservative points of view is to throw America in the toilet and become completely impractical. However, to progress in the warlike stances of Conservatives also is to nuke the whole world out of existence.

So, what is mainstream and what is conservative?

I think both points of view are necessary for the continued survival of the U.S. for thousands or millions of years on into the future. And finding the right balance is the trick that America has been trying and sometimes succeeding at since 1620.