Can a site founded on opposition to authority ever move into a position of support?

[nobodyspecial]

Serious question. Discuss.

[Vincardog]

1. Of which sir, do you speak?

[MrScorpio]

2. It's my understanding that this site reps opposition to Republican rule

That's the only way that I roll.

[nobodyspecial]

4. Well, it was opposition to Bush

but it never moved fully into supporting Obama.

I'm thinking that some would be against anyone in charge, no matter who it is.

[Vincardog]

6. I think you are confusing opposition to this country becoming a police state to

opposition to "Authority". I was opposed to the Idiot Bush's POLICIES and to the fact that he was ILLEGALLY appointed.
Does that imply I have to support Any so called "Democrat" that supports the same POLICIES?
I do not think so.

[leeroysphitz]

3. Doesn't look like it but what do I know? n/t

[cthulu2016]

5. I think I know what you mean

Groups opposed to Bush included a lot of people opposed to authority, power, etc..

Swap the authority to a different hand and some common cause disappears because many of the original coalition actually dislike authority for its own sake, not merely as applied by one party.

I was just writing something about how the libertarians became a white supremicist front, which is kind of the inverse of what you are describing. If you oppose all laws then some of your coalition will be single-issue opponants of particular laws. But if Libertarians came into power most would be revealed to be authoritarians who had objected to only a few laws of special interest to them. (Integration, corporate taxation, etc.)

Similarly, a devoted anarchist will tend to appear partisan until the parties change.