Conservatives don't need a dating app, they need to date like normal people

Actually everyone should date like normal people

Three months after it launched, “conservative dating app The Right Stuff is still failing to seduce large numbers of right-wing users,” the Daily Beast reports. Of course it’s failing! It was always a bad idea, it was virtually destined to fail, its failure was pretty much written into its digital DNA from the start. A “conservative dating app” is, let’s face it, just a big turn-off. Nobody really wants to go on that, not even conservatives.

Part of it is that the app itself is just so awkwardly coded toward painfully corny conservative stereotypes. Users are prompted to share “a random fact I love about America,” or to offer their opinion about the January 6 Capitol riot. It’s hard to imagine more dreadful criteria for selecting a potential husband or wife. I mean it’s not like I don’t find that stuff interesting to talk about, but it’s not first-date territory, much less date-screening territory. If I were still single and a woman asked me that stuff on a first date I think I’d fake a diarrhea attack and slip out the restaurant’s back door. An early advertisement for the service had a bunch of women saying the “biggest red flag” in a potential mate is his being “a Democrat.” Um, okay, sure, these are definitely not paid actresses. It’s okay to just say “he smokes cigarettes” or “he lives in his parents’ basement.” I’m not saying you should go out of your way to date a Democrat, it’s fine if you want a conservative mate, but not everything has to be so comically hyper-political.