RE: What Do You Call a Fiscal Progressive and a Social Conservative?
February 16, 2017 at 4:04 am
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2017 at 4:08 am by InquiringMind.)
(February 16, 2017 at 3:51 am)Socrates Wrote: I found myself agreeing with some of what you had to say, except women not being oppressed at one point, transgenderism being a mental disorder, and the abortion deal.
With women, they werent even able to vote at one point.
With transgenders, c'mon dude, thats a bit harsh and there isn't much reason to consider it a disorder.
With abortion the baby is apart of the womans body, and while I agree that it can be unfair that women have the final say in abortion whether or not men agree with it, it is still the womans body and still her choice.
I understand you were just asking for a better term to describe where you fit but just felt like I needed to comment. I don't really have a term for you, sorry man.
I could make a case for each of my positions, but I won't right now. Maybe I'll say that my views are that "I was feelin' the Bern." Bernie was more into the economic and environmental justice, and less into the social justice. Or I could just call myself independent.
What is different from before, though, is that now I can defend each of my positions because I arrived at them after a lot of research and thought. Back when I was a devout Mormon, I was conservative because that's what I was expected to be, and I never took the time to research the issues and come to my own conclusions.
