Basically the opposite of American libertarianism.
Generally, I'm pretty socially conservative. I'm for strong national defense and interventionism when human rights are being abused, support deporting illegal immigrants and tightening up restrictions on legal immigration, making English the official language and only printing government documents in English (exceptions can be made to protect and uphold the culture of indigenous peoples on a local scale), I'm pro-death penalty and support expanding it for certain crimes, I'm pro-life (with an exception to save the life of the mother when both mother and child would die; it's sad but at least the mother should be saved), I'm generally opposed to euthanasia because it seems to promote a culture of suicide, more restrictions on the sex industry and programs to help sex workers leave it and to combat human trafficking at home and abroad, I support LGBT rights but do so to assimilate LGBT people into mainstream society and thereby make it a non-issue (I'm opposed to identity politics in general), support combating hard drug use by going to war with drug cartels and traffickers and providing rehabilitation programs for drug addicts, I support harshly combating urban street gangs and to support inner city faith groups in outreach to urban youth to keep them off the streets and set them on a better path, etc.
Economically, I'm more progressive. I support universal public healthcare and a system similar to the NHS in the UK, I support a progressive taxation system with higher taxes for the rich and superrich than for the middle-class and poor, I support breaking up large monopolies, I support penalizing companies that outsource American jobs, I support protectionism, I'm for stripping corporations of being defined as "persons", I'm for campaign finance reform, I'm for massive public works projects, I'm generally opposed to "free trade" and support repealing NAFTA, I'm opposed to GMOs and patenting of seeds and instead support small-scale family owned farms, I'm for promoting grassroots programs to revitalize inner city and impoverished communities, etc.
Anyway, you kind of get the picture of where I stand.
Obviously, I don't fit in with either the Democrats or the Republicans generally. I'm not a social progressive, I'm not a free market capitalist (morally, I have a lot of problems with capitalism, period, but I'm certainly no Marxist), etc.
So where do I fit in? What do I call myself? Which party is closest to my views? It's all very frustrating.
Generally, I'm pretty socially conservative. I'm for strong national defense and interventionism when human rights are being abused, support deporting illegal immigrants and tightening up restrictions on legal immigration, making English the official language and only printing government documents in English (exceptions can be made to protect and uphold the culture of indigenous peoples on a local scale), I'm pro-death penalty and support expanding it for certain crimes, I'm pro-life (with an exception to save the life of the mother when both mother and child would die; it's sad but at least the mother should be saved), I'm generally opposed to euthanasia because it seems to promote a culture of suicide, more restrictions on the sex industry and programs to help sex workers leave it and to combat human trafficking at home and abroad, I support LGBT rights but do so to assimilate LGBT people into mainstream society and thereby make it a non-issue (I'm opposed to identity politics in general), support combating hard drug use by going to war with drug cartels and traffickers and providing rehabilitation programs for drug addicts, I support harshly combating urban street gangs and to support inner city faith groups in outreach to urban youth to keep them off the streets and set them on a better path, etc.
Economically, I'm more progressive. I support universal public healthcare and a system similar to the NHS in the UK, I support a progressive taxation system with higher taxes for the rich and superrich than for the middle-class and poor, I support breaking up large monopolies, I support penalizing companies that outsource American jobs, I support protectionism, I'm for stripping corporations of being defined as "persons", I'm for campaign finance reform, I'm for massive public works projects, I'm generally opposed to "free trade" and support repealing NAFTA, I'm opposed to GMOs and patenting of seeds and instead support small-scale family owned farms, I'm for promoting grassroots programs to revitalize inner city and impoverished communities, etc.
Anyway, you kind of get the picture of where I stand.
Obviously, I don't fit in with either the Democrats or the Republicans generally. I'm not a social progressive, I'm not a free market capitalist (morally, I have a lot of problems with capitalism, period, but I'm certainly no Marxist), etc.
So where do I fit in? What do I call myself? Which party is closest to my views? It's all very frustrating.
