Question for left wing / liberal / progressive SWeeps:

I don't think it's sensible to make college free. Someone who goes to college to become an engineer, graduates with a shit ton of debt, & then gets a high-paying job is no worse off than someone who graduates high school and gets a job as a rig pig or Amazon worker. Why then, do we want to subsidize the former at a higher rate than the latter? The world may never know. Still, if it were up for referendum, I'd sign off on it because at least it's a transfer of wealth from the upper class to the poor. But I'd much rather give out the same money as a PBI.

There are, however, people who fail out of college because they don't have stable finances at home, and they definitely have a special need, but a PBI would address that anyway. And before someone comes in correctly stating that education benefits democracy, you could easily by that same benefit much more cheaply by making online course materials at public institutions free & pumping more money into freely accessible edutainment. That's my two cents.

Political correctness. Infringement on freedom of speech.

A lot of things, actually. I don’t support anything illiberal they do. I don’t support silencing and canceling people just for saying things they don’t like or agree with. And I most certainly don’t support the disgusting bullying and intimidation tactics they like to use. They’re no better than conservatives and do more harm than good for the left.

I’m a leftist but I have questions about trans kids. Although I think it’s possible to know you are trans as a kid, I don’t think there’s much to be done about it until they are older and can make decisions for themselves. Some things are just going to require waiting.

I also don’t give a rat’s ass if white people want to sell Chinese and Mexican food or whatever. Identity politics is often a distraction from more important class and economic issues.

"Defund the police" is something I have never supported. It's a seriously bad idea, in my opinion. If anything, we need more funding for the police in many places. We need better screening, better training, and better pay for police officers. These things will require more spending. I don't see how it's possible to get better policing (which presumably we all want) by significantly reducing funding for police departments. I fear it would have the opposite effect.

What I actually find most annoying is having to identify on a side at all. I simply base my politics on what I find most sensible for each issue and my overall philosophy emerges from that. I don't have a philosophy which I try to force downwards on the issues.
What is that pragmatism?

I feel like the focus on pronouns is largely unnecessary and serves to further divide people at a time when unity is crucial.

Be who you are, do what you feel, identify how you identify, but do we really need 78 gender labels to describe you? Simplify it already.

Nuclear power.
Lots of the "trigger/safe-space" stuff.
I think abortion before survivability outside the womb should be legal as a last resort, but it's definitely not OK.

I'm quite liberal, but sometimes it bugs me how dismissive some people become in their opinion/views? Conversation doesn't start by stating I'll never listen to you.

Some trans issues, college debt forgiveness, CRT is not history, identity politics, defund the police, and free school lunch not being ideal. I’m a 90s Dem so left behind for sure…

Public funding for religious schools. Though i think it is a slipperly slope. If there are no other viable options for schools, typically in rural areas yes public funding should be applied to those school that provide required education to students. Just to ensure student success. I support this exception not unrestricted religious tax payer contribution

I'm not soft on crime. I'm critical of political correctness because I believe in the right to freedom of speech as a basic principle.

Actually, I'm a throwback - FDR Democrat New Dealer type. With a lot of 60's-70's environmentalism.

Not being Marxist enough.

Guns, immigration, taxes, abortion, and not having the backbone to get things done, not fighting fire with fire.

There's no way to say "most". It's a very broad spectrum.

I probably sit a bit further left of the middle of the left.

I'm dead-set against the way all "communist" countries have become right-wing capitalist dictatorships.

Liberals aren't leftists.
There's a lot I disagree with with liberals.
I'm pro second amendment (with rational gun regulations), I'm not for capitalism even with a friendly face and I'm not for trying to reform the state in something friendly.

My politics are Anarcho-Syndicalist.

Methodology! How things are done. Many issues should be instituted by the constitution.

👀 🍿 this is interesting we should make one of the opposite too

Immigrants’ rights. I agree with the right to immigrate—legally, and if the immigration laws are unfair and discriminatory, they need to be changed. But to ignore the laws altogether isn’t right, imo. Proposals like drivers licenses and other special arrangements for people here illegally are ridiculous.

No.

Supporting the Invasion of the country.

Abortion, higher taxes, the gun control delusion.
Just to name a few.