Hi everyone this is my first post on this site. Just a quick background of me I have been politically influenced because I lived in California growing up then moved to Ohio and will soon be going to the University of Oregon. I'm more progressive/liberal on social issues because I support gay rights, believe in climate change, support of public education, and Asian Awareness stuff. But I'm more conservative on 2A where I'll defend your right to own a gun, but personally won't own one, I'm Pro-Life but will make the exception to cases of rape, incest, and underage pregnancies, and now I'm anti-war bring our troops home. This is the first election cycle where I'll be able to vote. In the primary cycle, I was a Tulsi supporter because I felt like she had a good message. But what got me off the fence as a moderate was that the democratic party went so far to the left in such a short time that felt politically homeless. When I look to the left with a lot of my "friends" just pushing woke left trash that is regurgitated posts on Instagram where they only cite the ACLU and Feminist Instagram pages. And when I challenge their idea they call me racist, sexist, etc. Then when I look to Trump supporters they can actually have a rational conversation where I can change my mind on many issues. But what got me to "jump off the fence" was when my friend said that I should vote Biden because I'm Asian after I posted a Free Hong Kong post. And I got fed up and said that I'm not the Democrat's pet and I don't need a white liberal telling me what to do. Even though I disagree with Trump on some issues I fully support him now. Thank you if you read this post and look forward to having some political conversations.
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The PNW has a beautiful ecology and is always green. Politically, its far left man. Im also from California (unfortunately) and moved to Washington for college (big mistake). I cant tell you how many times an innocent joke in class has turned into the "professor" going on a long rant about lefitst politics. If you can, I'd recommend going to the smoking areas on campus. Thats where I've found some of the most open minded people at UW. I wish you the best at UO.
Thanks. Like I grew up in the Bay Area for most of my life then moved to Ohio, but didn't feel at home and couldn't make as strong of relationships and then my childhood best friend said that I should go to UO with him so I checked it out and loved it. But I'm going to be focusing on trying to get into Med School that I'm going try a find a way to read through the far left rhetoric that I'm going to see.
I grew up about an hour east of the bay, and I get what you mean. Easiest way to read through the far left rhetoric is to question everything. Breakdown the arguments being presented with the help of outside sources and see if it holds up to scrutiny. Most of the rhetoric is non-scientific and falls apart when pinned against actual scientific research. This process will require a lot more work on your part, but it will severely develop your understanding of the material and build your logical and argumentative abilities.
That's what I've learned the past couple of years from just doing research papers that I've become so used to researching things that I can formulate my own opinion on many topics, but just have to keep doing it.