I'm struck by a couple things that you say here. I believe that the axiom "the truth is in the middle" when talking about two "sides" to any "story" is pretty accurate (at least from my non-empirical research in interviewing witnesses to/parties involved in the variety of situations a street cop is asked to investigate.) Your post seem…
I'm struck by a couple things that you say here. I believe that the axiom "the truth is in the middle" when talking about two "sides" to any "story" is pretty accurate (at least from my non-empirical research in interviewing witnesses to/parties involved in the variety of situations a street cop is asked to investigate.) Your post seems to say to me that there is a center body made up from elements to the right and left of a midline that is larger than either edge. Kind of like a bird, which really needs both of its wings to fly.
I have talked with far, far more men than women who identify themselves as "socially liberal and fiscally conservative" and what it boils down to is keeping their money while enjoying their personal liberty; I suspect that women being paid 77 cents on the dollar compared to men may have a bit to do with that, as does the responsibility for pregnancy and childbirth.
In one set of my friends and associates, I am a "raging liberal" while in another set of friends and associates I am a "hard-line conservative" while expressing THE SAME VIEWS AND OPINIONS. I believe I lean much harder to a liberal perspective, if one where women are equal to men in every regard is a "liberal", along with the funny notion that BIPoc and LGBTQ+ are equal to Cis Het White people is defined as liberal, and that a person's religion is their personal choice, and should not be foisted upon anyone else.
I'm struck by a couple things that you say here. I believe that the axiom "the truth is in the middle" when talking about two "sides" to any "story" is pretty accurate (at least from my non-empirical research in interviewing witnesses to/parties involved in the variety of situations a street cop is asked to investigate.) Your post seems to say to me that there is a center body made up from elements to the right and left of a midline that is larger than either edge. Kind of like a bird, which really needs both of its wings to fly.
I have talked with far, far more men than women who identify themselves as "socially liberal and fiscally conservative" and what it boils down to is keeping their money while enjoying their personal liberty; I suspect that women being paid 77 cents on the dollar compared to men may have a bit to do with that, as does the responsibility for pregnancy and childbirth.
In one set of my friends and associates, I am a "raging liberal" while in another set of friends and associates I am a "hard-line conservative" while expressing THE SAME VIEWS AND OPINIONS. I believe I lean much harder to a liberal perspective, if one where women are equal to men in every regard is a "liberal", along with the funny notion that BIPoc and LGBTQ+ are equal to Cis Het White people is defined as liberal, and that a person's religion is their personal choice, and should not be foisted upon anyone else.