<p>As was explained to me, 'oriental' is designated for products, not humans.</p>
<p>haha, like rugs? never thought of it that way.</p>
<p>The city is great, but the establishment...</p>
<p>Chillax bromang kyledavid80, </p>
<p>I am asian. No need to get PC. I tried getting friends and family to go out and vote a few months back to no avail. Damn you orientals!</p>
<p>hahah.....</p>
<p>The only significant evidence of liberalism now is in your humanities' discussion sections, represented by only a few individuals. Berkeley's liberalism has been greatly over-exaggerated and its reputation merely trickled down from the truly radical times of yesteryear.</p>
<p>When I came to Berkeley I probably would've called myself a liberal, but now I don't. There is nothing wrong with being a liberal, and I still agree with many of the positions that they hold, but I just couldn't call myself a liberal after seeing what "real" liberals are all about in the bay. I find the campus itself to be pretty apolitical, but the city is ridiculously liberal and crazy. You get middle aged people who look like they should be sleeping in peoples park who walk around campus telling the students they're nazis because they want new athletic facilities. These people have no connection to Cal, but they taint the school with their stinky, 60's loving garbage. A pox on all of them.</p>
<p>i also came to berkeley as a self-described liberal. now i am a moderate. not much room in Berkeley liberal politics for a white male who doesn't want to punish every other white male in America for simply being a white male. The "liberals" here aren't as open-minded as I had expected. just look at the issues of CalServe, the super liberal political party on campus. Helping minorities to them means punishing caucasians and asians thoroughly in the admissions process.</p>
<p>"I'm basically socially liberal but economically conservative."</p>
<p>That's a libertarian. Just in case you were wondering.</p>
<p>thats not a libertarian in case you're wondering.</p>
<p>Yourzer, I can probably count the right-leaning people in Poli 179 on one hand. When a right-winger presents he gets bashed on when people ask questions.</p>
<p>As to answer the OPs question, the school is very liberal, but not as much as it used to be. This is because the tree huggers can't get into Berkeley anymore, they just like to hang around and be naked in our trees. </p>
<p>I think you will enjoy Berkeley though. I think you would find things such as The Patriot for you since you consider yourself economically conservative. There are many of us here. I am more right-winged than you and I do not find myself alienated.</p>
<p>There are no problems for us libertarians on campus. If you don't want to be bothered by the flaming liberals, just avoid walking straight through Sproul Plaza. Though its hard to find anyone running for ASUC that has any views like ours.</p>
<p>there's definitely diversity on campus...mostly liberal but not TOO liberal...people become more moderate here.</p>
<p>Honestly, its a very comfortable environment regardless of political beliefs. I was a lot more liberal before I came to Berkeley...now I am more moderate. I think people gain common sense at Berkeley, regardless of left or right wing beliefs.</p>
<p>Just to clarify, a person who is fiscally conservative and socially liberal is a classic republican; they're typically from the post-Revolutionary era to the early 20th century. The classic republican is nearly extinct in modern politics, and the definition of what a republican is has been heavily skewed into having a more "moralist," religious affiliation rooted in the South as opposed to New England. As a result, party lines have drifted further and further apart.</p>
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<p>In general, the moral compasses of both parties have kind of drifted to their polar opposites; fiscally, the Democrats have come closer the center whereas the Republicans have shifted to a fused hard-right/libertarian policy of low taxes and high deficits. In other words, the right now slants towards lower inflation, but the left leans for lower unemployment numbers and poverty rates.</p>
<p>While this may be true, when it comes to "morals" both parties indeed steer in opposite directions.</p>