Opinion of the previous poster's ideology

[IceSpear]

Progressive Democrat that isn't a communist = FI

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Approaching VSPism

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Democratic hackishness hidden behind the vale of Social Democracy or something like that.

[IceSpear]

Approaching VSPism

Are you implying I think Medicare and SS need to be cut or America will literally be destroyed or that I think Paul Ryan is a "policy wonk" that works in good faith to balance the budget?

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[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Mainline destructive American capitalist thought.  "Destructive" is probably part of the idea though, so it's definitely a self-aware ideology, for which credit is due.

[Cranberry]

As far as I know, quite similar to mine.

[windjammer]

Mostly good

[Hash]

Very boring white noise.

[traininthedistance]

Solid in almost every way, the big exception being that I'm pretty deeply skeptical of his regionalist leanings.

[Maxwell]

Don't agree on too much, but he comes from a place of honesty and intellect, so it's mostly fine.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Libertarianism.  Blech!  To think I once gave them the benefit of the doubt. 

[Antonio the Sixth]

Not my kind of leftism.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The worst kind of moderate heroism and socialism combined: social democracy. I'd rather live in TNF's ideal America, where the revolution doesn't sustain itself on naked power alone.

[windjammer]

Nice guy, horrible ideology.

Very boring white noise.

I  don't understand your sarcasm.

[SWE]

Anyone who says Feinstein is the senator they have the most in common with can't be that good

[H. Ross Peron]

Good in general even if a bit too leftist for my tastes

[Goldwater]

Good for a Secretary of Defense, bad for a Secretary of the Treasury.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Nearly as close to the opposite of mine as possible within the limits of reasonableness.

[Sol]

Their ideology is well thought, but I get the sense that, even though we agree on almost everything, we have completely opposite reasoning - and I suspect it's partially religious (duh) but also an urban-rural kind of thing (even though they actually live in a more urban area than I do).

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Their ideology is well thought, but I get the sense that, even though we agree on almost everything, we have completely opposite reasoning - and I suspect it's partially religious (duh) but also an urban-rural kind of thing (even though they actually live in a more urban area than I do).

Where do you live?

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[Sol]

Their ideology is well thought, but I get the sense that, even though we agree on almost everything, we have completely opposite reasoning - and I suspect it's partially religious (duh) but also an urban-rural kind of thing (even though they actually live in a more urban area than I do).

Where do you live?

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You live in Amherst, right? I think is probably more urban (or at least urban tied) than Boone, NC, although I must admit that I don't know too much about Western Mass.

Boone is fairly dense but I would not characterize it as being a city or anything. If anything that's more of a function of local topography.

[Flake]

Absolutely wonderful in every way, we have very few disagreements on policy.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Their ideology is well thought, but I get the sense that, even though we agree on almost everything, we have completely opposite reasoning - and I suspect it's partially religious (duh) but also an urban-rural kind of thing (even though they actually live in a more urban area than I do).

Where do you live?

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You live in Amherst, right? I think is probably more urban (or at least urban tied) than Boone, NC, although I must admit that I don't know too much about Western Mass.

Boone is fairly dense but I would not characterize it as being a city or anything. If anything that's more of a function of local topography.

Until recently I was in Amherst because I was going to school there but where my family actually lives, and where I am now, is South Deerfield. It's a village center, certainly not the middle of the woods, but it has only about two thousand people and is sandwiched between farmland and another, historically preserved village center to the north, more farmland to the south, wooded mountains and then the Connecticut River to the east, and a ribbon of highways and then mile after mile of wooded mountain to the west.

From what I know of Boone it and Amherst are about equally urban without taking the UMass campus into account. Taking the UMass campus into account--as one should, really--Amherst is definitely more so, yes.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Needs less empathy. Not too much less.

[Sol]

Their ideology is well thought, but I get the sense that, even though we agree on almost everything, we have completely opposite reasoning - and I suspect it's partially religious (duh) but also an urban-rural kind of thing (even though they actually live in a more urban area than I do).

Where do you live?

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You live in Amherst, right? I think is probably more urban (or at least urban tied) than Boone, NC, although I must admit that I don't know too much about Western Mass.

Boone is fairly dense but I would not characterize it as being a city or anything. If anything that's more of a function of local topography.

Until recently I was in Amherst because I was going to school there but where my family actually lives, and where I am now, is South Deerfield. It's a village center, certainly not the middle of the woods, but it has only about two thousand people and is sandwiched between farmland and another, historically preserved village center to the north, more farmland to the south, wooded mountains and then the Connecticut River to the east, and a ribbon of highways and then mile after mile of wooded mountain to the west.

From what I know of Boone it and Amherst are about equally urban without taking the UMass campus into account. Taking the UMass campus into account--as one should, really--Amherst is definitely more so, yes.

South Deerfield is probably more rural then.

Boone feels more rural than it is in some ways- the local high school, for instance, is the whole county and the transition from Downtown Boone to the more rural parts is pretty marked*. Nonetheless, basically being the center of Northwestern NC and having ASU does make it a little more cosmopolitan by regional standards- not to mention having a (crappy) mass transit system.

Also, Boone is fairly remote from most major cities. Asheville is a fellow lefty mountain city, but it isn't very directly accessible from Watauga County. Most people go to Charlotte or Winston-Salem, to shop, even though the closest major city is actually Johnson City, in TN. Not that it's much of a destination for day trips or anything- the roads in between are either obscure back routes or incredibly twisty highways which must be avoided by anyone with a susceptibility to motion sickness.

*It's a bit of an illusion though- topography made the town develop in a very easterly direction, but if you go to the west in just a few minutes you'll be in countryside (albeit rather Boone tinged, with student housing interspersed between trees).

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