How I Come to Be a Free Thinker

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I was raised by two scientists and like logic and and reason were were kind of like instilled upon me in a very early age so I think I'm a very free thinker although I think most of my ideas are similar to liberal ideals. While my views you know if you had to compress me onto a single line I would definitely be left leaning that would be a really terrible approximation of what I think about a lot of stuff because I try to adopt a good perspective I can find everywhere at least my aspiration well you've done a good job that's great that sure beats that sure beats collecting that baseball cards like collect models thanks so yeah thank them for the interview. we could we could do that

Why do liberals and conservatives disagree so vehemently? Why are things so polarized in the US right now? What are the core values held by liberals and conservatives? How much value does tradition have? Where and why do liberals and conservatives disagree about climate change? Where and why do liberals and conservatives disagree about free speech and political correctness?

Cassandra Xia's bio: "Cassandra Xia (@CassandraXia) is the daughter of Chinese scientists who emigrated to the United States. Her parents raised her on a blend of logic, reason, and immigrant can-do attitude. She emerged as a strategic liberal that strongly believes in free speech and compassionate dialogue. She recently left her job as a Google software engineer to work on climate change. Cassandra's work can be found at cassandraxia.com and workonclimate.org."

Hank Racette's bio: "I'm an uneducated fifty-something father of six who divides his time between writing industrial automation software and opining about the precariousness of western civilization and the enemies, mostly unwitting, arrayed against it. I'm fascinated by words, mathematics, evolution, human nature, emergent behavior, and saving the most successful nation and culture in history from the innocent mistakes of smart people with good intentions. I'm a free-speech extremist and, in general, what used to be called a classical liberal. I can be found on Ricochet, where I write as Henry Racette, on Facebook, and reached via email at hank.racette@gmail.com."

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