Is Mina a middle aged dye-in-the-wool liberal or a idealist young woman?

Eagle_Eye said:
From her posts:




It seems reading through her posts she is a product of an extreme liberal education. As such she shuts down all reasoning powers when faced with an opposing view. Her political outlook is based on two things Liberalism good Conservatism bad.

With that viewpoint she doesn't need to know how systems work as long as they fit her idea of political correctness.

The truly scary thing is we have radicals like her on the right also and both of these idiots vote.
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Neither middle-aged nor particularly young. I'm in my early 30's. Yes, I had a liberal education, at least through my undergrad years. My graduate degree was in a subject where the education was more conservative.
 
Mina said:
Neither middle-aged nor particularly young. I'm in my early 30's. Yes, I had a liberal education, at least through my undergrad years. My graduate degree was in a subject where the education was more conservative.
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You are a very intelligent young woman. I was fairly liberal in my youth, But seeing and living all over the world I realized that not everything is black and white. In some areas liberalism is fine in others it is better to be more conservative. So let us agree to disagree on many subjects. I am sure I can learn some different perspectives from you and vice versa.
 
Eagle_Eye said:
You are a very intelligent young woman. I was fairly liberal in my youth, But seeing and living all over the world I realized that not everything is black and white. In some areas liberalism is fine in others it is better to be more conservative. So let us agree to disagree on many subjects. I am sure I can learn some different perspectives from you and vice versa.
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I don't consider myself a one-size-fits all person, politically, even though I tend to lean left more than right. For example, I'm not at all on-board with the Millennial rallying cry of erasing all student debt. I think that many on the left fail to consider the risk of unintended consequences with crusading of that sort. In fact, I've come out against a number of sweeping liberal ideas because of unintended consequences.

Another good example was the pandemic-era push to halt rent collection and mortgage payments for poorer people. Although I was open to that as a very short-term emergency measure, I thought that if it was going to stick around for long it had to take the form not of a "stick it to the landlords/banks" approach, but rather as a matter of socializing that cost more generally, because otherwise you'd just create a disincentive for new investment in affordable housing (if you've got money to invest, why risk it in affordable housing if you think the government might step in and stop your income stream, leaving you out to dry?)

I'm also pro-nuclear power, which is unusual for a liberal, and I'm highly skeptical of the lefty tendency to fixate on a few name-brand corporations to play the villain, rather than thinking more systematically (e.g., the lefty smear campaign against Amazon's labor practices, even when Amazon actually treats its workers much better than most entry-level jobs, including higher pay, better benefits, and better opportunities for advancement).
 
Mina said:
I don't consider myself a one-size-fits all person, politically, even though I tend to lean left more than right. For example, I'm not at all on-board with the Millennial rallying cry of erasing all student debt. I think that many on the left fail to consider the risk of unintended consequences with crusading of that sort. In fact, I've come out against a number of sweeping liberal ideas because of unintended consequences.

Another good example was the pandemic-era push to halt rent collection and mortgage payments for poorer people. Although I was open to that as a very short-term emergency measure, I thought that if it was going to stick around for long it had to take the form not of a "stick it to the landlords/banks" approach, but rather as a matter of socializing that cost more generally, because otherwise you'd just create a disincentive for new investment in affordable housing (if you've got money to invest, why risk it in affordable housing if you think the government might step in and stop your income stream, leaving you out to dry?)

I'm also pro-nuclear power, which is unusual for a liberal, and I'm highly skeptical of the lefty tendency to fixate on a few name-brand corporations to play the villain, rather than thinking more systematically (e.g., the lefty smear campaign against Amazon's labor practices, even when Amazon actually treats its workers much better than most entry-level jobs, including higher pay, better benefits, and better opportunities for advancement).
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Thanks, I see common ground on several of your points.
 
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