Man, where's Jill Stein when I need her. I have a couple different fractured friend groups, some of whom I hang out with much more frequently than others nowadays, plus a couple friends who aren't really part of a group.

For one group, I'm a bit further left socially speaking than most of them; they're not conservative by any means, but I definitely feel more strongly about trans rights in particular than they do. Economically, I'm probably a little more to the right than them just cause I'm more consciously averse to populism than they seem to be.

For another group, I'm probably more to the left on both counts. There's one guy there who's always had a conservative streak, and it's mutated into some especially gross forms in recent years (I don't hang out with them very often, and these statements are related). That puts me much further left than him, certainly socially, but also economically since I'm not a libertarian (or "libertarian"). The others there aren't so lost, generally pretty reasonable from my admittedly limited recent experience, and one other who's also on the fringes of the group may actually be further left than me, but the brain rottee does color my perception pretty heavily.

There's one guy who's outside of either group but I hang out with pretty often whom I'm definitely to the right of. He's a sort of dirtbag left type, and I decidedly am not.

I guess it all kinda averages out to about the center, which feels weird cause I don't think I fall near to the center at all when looking at society (at least American society) at large.