What Are Your Political Views?

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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)

Also, you'll find this strange - but I'm actually hesitant on freedom of speech. I'm in full support of freedom of information - in the format of a completly neutral, weekly or montly fact sheet (with lots of double-checking from different qualified individuals), however, humans are extremly easy to influence. Nowadays, it's frightingly easy to spread fallacies while only citing facts, as long as you choose carefully and fabricate a calculated image of the situation from dispersed fragments. 

 

I think that it's important for people to form their own opinions on issues, rationaly. In respect to human psychology, I only think that that becomes a possibility if all information is restricted to the numbers. People can't ignore their emotions, so we must bbe kept away from individual stories/images.