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Considering the tilt of basically all of media, big business, tech giants, government, education and basically every other major societal institution it is basically impossible to live in a "conservative bubble." You will be exposed to the ideas of the other side by simple virtue that you cannot get away from them (unless you decide to be a hermit somewhere).The majority of my friends are liberals, im far from putting myself in a filter bubble even participating in this gun forum.
What is the lack of self awareness than many conservative gun owners dont see?
Honestly it is Liberals who often live in a bubble, since they can. It is far easier to live a life without conservative influence now, and I regularly speak to people for whom I and other personal acquaintances are basically the only voice they hear from that side, and that only to the extent that we talk about anything even vaguely political in the first place. They have zero exposure to "conservative media," follow no conservative commentary, see no conservative social posts (because they have blocked/filtered them all out) and experience no "viewpoint saturation" to counter any of that active and passive self selection.
Try that as a conservative. Try to only watch conservative movies and shows, be exposed to only conservative news (at home, in the doctors office, grabbing a bite to eat at the sports bar. . .) have only conservative results show up in your online searches. . . It simply cannot be done.
So to have some Liberal come in here and accuse us of "living in a bubble" because we have made one space for ourselves where we can be comfortable talking openly and not be constantly challenged on even basic, indisputable facts is honestly quite hilarious. As if it were the conservatives that were constantly filtering, suppressing and censoring opposing viewpoints to the point where they are all but excised from whole vast swaths of society. If you want to find "viewpoint bubbles" go talk to your co-conspirators and ask them the last time they herd a conservative viewpoint from an actual conservative, not some straw man "conservative viewpoint" spoon fed to them from one of their own pundits. The only ones that have are the ones who actively go seek it out, for all the rest it has been effectively erased.