Are Engineers More Likely to be Liberals or Conservatives

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For many of the reasons listed above, I feel like a lot of engineers tend to be libertarian (whether they realize it or not). They are fiscally conservative, and honestly don’t care about a lot of the issues that irk the two major parties. Most engineers I know feel more like “as long as it isn’t hurting anyone else, just let people go on about their business. The government shouldn’t be interjecting itself into everything.” Of course, I know some extremely liberal engineers and I know some extremely conservative ones as well. I did my undergrad at a very liberal school and I am doing my grad work at a very conservative school and to be honest, the general outlook of engineers is only slightly different.</p>

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<p>Libertarians tend to be incredibly fierce debaters. I am one of them, we debate each other for fun. Just take a look at the large number of libertarian online communities or other communities like reddit, where Libertarian minds debate until they win. Also Libertarianism is not moderate. It is an extreme, just like Like Socially Liberal, Conservative or Authoritarian or the other many views. </p>

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<p>You might also take note of the sheer number of people in this thread (who are all presumably engineers) that have identified themselves or other engineers in their experience as moderates.

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<p>Being an Engineer implies you are hired as an engineer and have that title specifically. Having a Degree in engineering, doesn’t make you an engineer. Similar to graduating medical school doesn’t imply you are a doctor or graduating nursing school doesn’t imply you are a nurse. So many students here, simply aren’t engineers. They are engineering students, or are conducting engineering research.</p>