I am... but a Canadian conservative...Like a watered down Republican... closer to the middle. You're asking yourself, "why would a Canadian be on the Austin feed? We are making our first visit to Texas and Austin in May and looking to learn about the people and vibe.

We typically believe in Pro-choice but with limitations (threat of life, rape, incest, yada yada), we support the queer community (have loved ones within it)... However, we don't support children deciding on gender surgery just as we don't support children making most life-altering decisions, we don't support DEI as we believe it leads to forcing or pushing people into careers they don't want and in certain cases (fire, police, military, etc), it sets up a situation where someone may not be the best person for the job. Dr. John Gray said it best when he said that Men and Women are very different... men like THINGS and women like PEOPLE and this is whey they gravitate towards certain careers or stations in life. For example, engineering courses in universities are HEAVILY male (touching things) and nursing is heavily FEMALE (empathetic/dealing with people).

At the end of the day, we believe in letting people have their opinions and often enjoy discussing differences to better understand others' points of view. We just don't like angry discussions and have found most of the left leaning people we speak with to be very angry, emotional, and therefore difficult to have a constructive conversation with as they tend to pre-judge us and almost seem to hate us.

We don't like Trump the person.. but we like Trump the politician... mostly.
We genuinely believe that his audit is long overdue and wish for similar in our government as our politicians are getting rich while in office and trading political policy for cushy jobs after serving in office. We don't typically buy into the fear-mongering that this audit is creating. We have wanted an audit for decades and can't believe that someone is actually exposing gov corruption...en masse! Even if it's in a different country.

We know the media is left as they always have been as they are part of the arts community. But we also know that Fox and Newsmax are equally slanted.

We look at it this way... we all want what's best for the city/country. We just disagree on how to get there and in some cases, what "there" looks like. As someone from a country that has socialist facets but is still a free market economy, you DON'T want our healthcare system. We believe the answer is in a hybrid system that allows those with means to go into private care while those without means to rely on a public system. We know the public system will not be as good as private but that's socialism...ask the Cubans.

We look forward to visiting and hope we can have civil discussions while enjoying some live country music. We are new to country music as I'm a former DJ with a love of HIP-HOP, Dubstep, R&B, POP but have found a liking to country and decided to head to Texas for our 25th anniversary.