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I've noticed this as well. Pretty much any poll leans heavily to the liberal side of the issue but, as you would expect, the same people pretend to be an oppressed minority or describe themselves as "moderate conservatives" despite being way to the left of any extant civilization.
So Sherdog seems to pretty much match the US as a whole. Extremely left wing but describes itself as conservative due to lack of world travel.
I don't think that's the case at all. I think members to the far right tend (think ruthless robert, hadron, or, more presently, Cable) to be a bit more vocal and fervent, so it may seem that those towards the left are in the minority. But I've never seen a woe-is-me type of culture. If anything, in this community, the left tends to be comprised of pragmatists more than anything else (other than maybe Nicky, who can be a bit of a bleeding heart from time to time).
Also, you tend to see a lot more of the us-versus-them rhetoric from those on the right in this forum. A lot of "liberals do this" or "liberal are always that" type of stuff-- much like what you said in your post. Heck, I think a lot of the "liberals" here don't identify as such outside of this forum.