I asked my sister Frank, "What does it mean to be 'woke'?"  I furthered probed and asked "If you're woke you support blank."  She hesitated.  Did she not want to reveal her political leanings or did she simply not know?  When I hear of someone being described as woke, I usually think of people supporting progressive social issues.  Issues like gay/trans rights, heath care, income inequality, and who could forget gun violence/control etc.  

In my opinion (which can be wrong because opinions cannot be proven to be true or false), if you are "woke" it means you advocate for the civil/human rights of individuals whom identify as gay or trans.  You want health care to be available and affordable to all and in some cases, for the state to provide it's citizens with some health care services free of charge (ie paid for by said citizens taxes).  You support a minimum wage or better yet, a living wage so even the lowest paying jobs can provide the most basic necessities (food, shelter, healthcare, education, etc) to support themselves or possibly a family.  You support increased regulations for gun ownership.  Even competency tests or mental health checks to those who purchase firearms.  Maybe even safety courses (are those mandatory after buying a weapon)?

What if you are Red-Pilled?  Would you support gay marriage if you were?  How about health care?  Would you vote Democrat, Republican or Neither?  Rather than your taxes paying for statewide health care for all citizens, would you prefer insurance companies/heath care providers compete against each other and offer the best coverage for the lowest price.  Thus, avoiding government bureaucracy and allowing the free market to decide.  Competition breeds excellence.  Same goes for employees and their wages.  If the pay is too low no one is forcing anyone to do the job.  If no one shows up to work, the employer can always increase their wages, thus attracting more employees.  Nothing is worse than an employer losing the labor of their employee to a firm who pays more for the same job.  The free market decides.  People won't take jobs if the pay is not enough for them.  Lastly, you believe that guns protect people.  If there are more people with guns, then there are more people to protect each other from criminals.  

I keep referring back to my high school history class where we learned about the political spectrum.  Turns out it does exist.  Probably something my teacher learned while he was in college or high school.  This is known as the Left-right political spectrum.  Democrats were on the left.  Republicans on the right.  Little did I know this was only one way to organize political ideologies on a geometric axis.  Hans Eysenck used this model to compare the ideologies of Communists to Nazis.  I tell my sister that calling someone liberal or conservative is not accurately describing their political ideology.  Only part of it.  While they might be conservative about social issues, they might also be support government intervention into big business or pollution regulations.  You don't know the whole story, is what I'm getting at.  

Give us a listen hopefully learn something new.  

My textbook source from college for this episode. 

Political Science 12th Ed. by Roskin, Cord, Medeiros and Jones.  ISBN 0-205-07594-0