What Are Your Political Views?

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AsGryffynn said:

Machina said:
Populist, right wing, socially liberal.

Political compass isn't very good at placing me on the chart - I hold positions at the extremes of all ends and they end up cancelling one another out, placing me in the middle. If there's one thing I'm not it's centrist.

Core beliefs:
- Anti EU
- Pro referenda, electoral reform, and more direct democracy
- Strongly oppose the foreign aid ring-fence
- Favour controlled immigration and proper border control
- Pro women's rights, gay rights, free speech, internet freedoms, and personal private freedoms
- Favour legalisation of drugs and prostitution
- Tough criminal sentencing, especially for violent and sexual offences
- Secularist, anti-Islam
- Strongly opposed all recent wars the UK was involved in (we haven't been involved in a just war in my lifetime - last one was the Falklands War)

I am the same. It's called Syncretism and revolves around the creation of an ideology that takes traits from all sides of the social spectrum. It definitely reflects my views spledidly. 

I generally agree with the sentiment that one should form your own opinions, not rely on party politics.

 

However, my conclusions vary strongly (not saying that they are more valid than yours, by the way. I'm sure you have you reasoning as I have mine.)

 

-Strongly pro-EU, other international cooperation.

-I like the German electoral system, as it is. Canada should adopt something similar. Maybe a bit more of the Swiss referendums, sure.

-Strongly in favor of international projects/cooperation.

-Favour an INTERNATIONAL OPEN LABOUR MARKET. As long as you can pay the rent, and are not a criminal, go find a job where you want to.

-In regards to all of the "x rights" (women's, etc...) I support perfectly egalitarian legislation, WITHOUT further incensitive to reach a perfectly equal society. I trust that the free market will do a better job in that regard, in the long term, and avoid tensions from arising.

-No arbitrary moral principles. People not liking something to exist is not argument enough. (If eating pigs is fine, so is eating minkey whales. Gay rights/incest/fictional child pornography, etc...)

-I'm hesitant on abortion (despite being agnostic/atheist. A philosophical position.)

-For legalisation of prostitution. For banning smoking (but no drug use should be a criminal offense. Purely civil.)

-A criminal sentencing soley focused on assuring longterm society happiness/stability, if it does not increase danger, hapiness of criminals also to be regarded. No punitive justice for its own sake. So, mostly shorter sentencing, since long sentences are inefficent at preventing crime.

-Regulation of religious ideals. What cannot be tolerated is ideals that seek to scare people into submission, that sell superiority over others or give you rights not defined by law.

-I believe that properly distributed and timed foreign aid can avoid most conflict. One of the international projects I would support - educate people to cooperate, create oppertunities to avoid desperation, and consequent conflict and extrimism.

That's it for now...