Roober
Master Don Juan
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I am curious where the general political compass of the board. I am not asking who you support for president or specific policies, but just where everyone generally lines up on the scale. I know I didn't include every possible option, but I feel like I see 4 major groups generally in politics. By creating a poll, nobody is obligated to disclose their position.
Being in California my whole life, I have always been a liberal and felt Fox News and Republicans were a little bit crazy. That is the picture painted here. It was around the time I found SS that I began to question my thinking. I realized I prefer minimal government., and that everyone should be responsible for their own actions. I really didn't know any different as all of my family and friends were at least moderate liberal, if not very liberal...
Now, I have realized, I am likely a moderate conservative, maybe this was always the case. For example,
-I think abortion and recreational drugs are not good things, but I don't believe they should be legislated
-I believe welfare is an absolute mess and enables more problems than it does fix them
-I also don't think we should be handing out needles to people on skid row, "tough love" is the better approach
I don't wish to discuss presidents, etc. I am more curious if the discovery of SS has affected people similarly. I feel like the more I learned, the less I became heavily slanted towards the progressive left or the conservative right. It made me much more balanced (at least I would like to think so). My initial hypothesis is that most here would be more moderate as well.
But I am more curious if anyone else has experienced this change?
Being in California my whole life, I have always been a liberal and felt Fox News and Republicans were a little bit crazy. That is the picture painted here. It was around the time I found SS that I began to question my thinking. I realized I prefer minimal government., and that everyone should be responsible for their own actions. I really didn't know any different as all of my family and friends were at least moderate liberal, if not very liberal...
Now, I have realized, I am likely a moderate conservative, maybe this was always the case. For example,
-I think abortion and recreational drugs are not good things, but I don't believe they should be legislated
-I believe welfare is an absolute mess and enables more problems than it does fix them
-I also don't think we should be handing out needles to people on skid row, "tough love" is the better approach
I don't wish to discuss presidents, etc. I am more curious if the discovery of SS has affected people similarly. I feel like the more I learned, the less I became heavily slanted towards the progressive left or the conservative right. It made me much more balanced (at least I would like to think so). My initial hypothesis is that most here would be more moderate as well.
But I am more curious if anyone else has experienced this change?