Beyond Parties: What are you?

[dharh]

I'm a social libertarian, social liberal, financial conservative, environmental conservationist (this last one might need a new label, but meh), pragmatist, and moderate.

Social libertarian.  For me this is not a states rights issue necessarily.  For most of the issues I am libertarian about I don't want even states butting into my private affairs.  I don't think even states should have a right to tell me what I can and cannot do to my body and mind.  They should have no right to tell me what religion I can practice, what kind of sex I can have, or who I marry (within a degree of common sense, like consent adults and not being able to marry dogs, which btw I think the federal federal government should have laws against, not state).

Social liberal.  Some of this is a cross label for social libertarian.  People will call me a liberal for thinking marijuana should be legal, but frankly I think its a libertarian issue more than a liberal one.  Otherwise, my social liberal-ness is about social safety nets.  Government should be protecting my civil rights and privacy, should be providing me with important social services (whatever form it is now or takes in the future, but we need universal healthcare for instance), preserving equal access to specific important services (roads, water, food, electrcity, internet, shelter), and protecting out country and states from foreign and domestic threats (and yes I believe this is a liberal issue and not a conservative one).

Financial conservative.  Given the above, I want the government to do that in an efficient matter, and I don't buy the bullshit that it can't be done, I think our problems generally come from either from normal human incompetence and greed (which by the way is massively pervasive in private business as well), and from people actively trying to subvert the notion that government can actually govern.  Outside of that, I do believe that laws and regulation need to be less complicated.  If it takes automatic auditing of every single regulation every X number of years, so be it.  We need to balance budgets as best as we can with the requirement that at the very least federal debt does not exceed projected combined federal income of 20-30 years (in other words if necessary we should be able to pay our nation debt down within 20-30).  Our military budgets are out of control imo, need some serious auditing, and potential downsizing.  Yeah I get it, best military in the world, blah blah.  We can maintain that without needing to outspend the other top whatever countries combined.

Environmental conservationist.  I get it that some people just can't wrap their head around the notion of human caused climate change, be it because god or whatever.  Regardless I think we should be protecting our environment so that we don't die from even the simple things we can protect ourselves against like neglegent corporations or everyday polutions.  We need to manage our forrests so we don't end up with NONE, and we do.  So lets do that with other vital resources like water (which we are _not_ doing very well).  Yes environmental conservation does include sustainable hunting, it also includes national preserves, limits on fracking, and protection for endangered species.  We need to preserve our country, and our planet, as best we can, because god does not seem willing to do it for us, all the evidence so far points to that fact.

Im also a pragmatist and moderate.  Pragmatist in that most of the time getting my agenda done will take time so I won't pitch a fit and quit just because things I want don't get done right away or that we take partial steps before getting to the final destination. In all other issues im pretty moderate.  If there is an issue not covered by my other ideals then lets hear arguments from all sides and then come to a compromise somewhere in the middle.  The my way or the highway bullshit needs to stop.