I was curious how common it is to be, say, a leftist in a very conservative area.
My county, family, and school are all very conservative. It makes it a bit intimidating to engage in any political discussion. I also rarely get to hear leftist opinion anywhere in person, which means i need to devote a lot of time to considering and thinking about arguments that are probably already solved.
Are you, or have you been, in a similar situation?
Enjoy it while you can, once you graduate, you’ll be surrounded by conservative capitalists. And yes, it’s way worse.
Well I already graduated, twice 😅. I’m doing my PhD now and I’m still beset by liberals, but at least they’re not conservatives. I even tried to go into the workforce but…well, uptight capitalist conservatives run the show in engineering firms, and they found me insufferable (not even for political reasons, I didn’t even get that far, apparently I’m too technical even for technical people 🙃) (but I also am insufferable lol). So I’m aiming for academia.