Ted Smith #ProEU*** POLL ***
How would you describe yourself politically?
Please vote, comment, and BOOST (very important)
Thank you.
Right Wing
Right of Centre
Left of Centre
Left Wing
None of the above
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Dave Lane 
🇳🇿@Ted more accurately for me: progressive.
@lightweight Yes,, but that still sits within the political spectrum as listed, does it not?
@Ted I suppose so, but there are properties of each of the stereotypical designations that I don't conform to... I'm not fully any of those characterisations. For example, I'm scientific, evidence-focused, and push for broader education. Not sure where that sits in that spectrum.
@lightweight Broader education? Better education for the masses? That is a socialist trait, I would suggest.
@Ted As would I. But some would say that prioritising education is elitist...
@lightweight How can it be? It enables people. The Right want good education for their own, but a highly educated electorate in general is not to their advantage, We saw that with the EU Referendum (Brexit) in the UK. The facts were quite clear. The less one's educational achievement, the more likely you were to vote for Leave.
@Ted I suppose many people think that taking the time out from just surviving is a luxury to which only the privileged can avail themselves. In the US, I've noticed a strong anti-education undercurrent, and some of it seems left-based.
Manish@lightweight @Ted Education should not be a luxury, that's why it should be free and public funded for everyone, which again comes under left.
@mani agreed. That's why I've made freely available education my mission. See https://tech.oeru.org/democratising-higher-education-oers-foss @Ted
Democratising Higher Education with OERs & FOSS | OERu Technology Blog
Rather than write a slide-based presentation for the Open Education miniconf at Linux.Conf.AU 2019, I thought I'd try an approach that seemed to work quite well recently: write my presentation as a blog post and make it available for posterity, before and after. You can find this post quickly by going to oer.nz/lca if you want to look at it on your own device.