By the way, don't get me wrong. Despite the progressive-seeming views stated in the OP, there's a lot of areas where I completely or mosty agree with the right.
Crime and punishment is one.
Strongly disagree. I was once a “crime and punishment” Republican, and once lauded the get-tough-on-crime measures starting with Reagan, ramped up by Poppy Bush, put on steroids by Clinton’s 1995 crime bill. Not anymore. And it’s all due to the utterly failed and completely counter-effective, urban community-destroying “War on Drugs”.
Taxes are another, though I'm more an across-the-board-lowering taxes type of guy, and in fact think the first $40k each person makes should be income tax free. But I really do believe taxes are too damn high, and not just income tax.
You should move to Oklahoma or Kansas. The state governments there have each been super frugal on raising taxes. Oh, and their school systems and infrastructures are suffering badly for lack of funds.
I mostly agree with the right on immigration.
So, are you for deporting the 11-12 million ‘illegals’, or just permanently keeping them in a state of labor market limbo until they get caught by the occasional immigration sweep?
I am pro-life, though the legalized early term abortion doesn't bother me that much. Late term abortion really bothers me, unless incredibly necessary. I'm horrified at what I've seen from the left this year, regarding late term abortion "rights".
Kudos to rightwing media outlets for spreading bogus claims of countless freewheeling at-will late-term abortions to jack up the emotions of an otherwise not-too-concerned economic conservative.
I feel welfare and other social programs need a lot of reform.
A vague fop to a hot button issue that is also still coded appeals to rural racists and modern day disciples of Archie Bunker.
I am very against socialized medicine, though I feel our current health care system is also very flawed and needs to be completely reworked.
Kudos to you for wanting millions of poor and working poor folks on Medicaid, and their kids, to be denied sensible access to healthcare. Oh, and let’s not forget the tens of millions of seniors on Medicare, which, according to Ron Paul, is ‘socialized’ medicine.
I am very against the handing out of arbitrary free shit on the taxpayer dime -- student loan forgiveness, free college for everyone, universal basic income, socialized medicine, etc.
We get you; you got yours. Fuck the poor saps who weren’t as lucky in the gene pool draw. It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and the only way to weed out the underperformers from society is to starve them out of existence.
I am against so-called "net neutrality", as it's a fraud, being pushed by the big content providers as a populist issue, when it's really not one.
Makes total sense. Give all of the power to decide who gets to use the internet on favorable terms in the hands of the companies that controls access to the internet. Those companies totally won’t abuse their monopoly power because [a string of unrealistic assumptions, illogic, and/or false notions]
I have no problem with gay people, and while I think trans people have a mental illness, since there's no cure, I can understand why they want to transition to the other gender. However, I think this "52 genders" thing is complete nonsense, as is the silly concept that gender has nothing to do with your sex (???)
I am truly impressed that during your many years as a poker professional, you were able to thoroughly school yourself in the sciences of genetics, developmental psychology, neurology, and psychiatry in order to conclusively determine that trans people “have a mental illness” and “gender has nothing to do with your sex”. Have you been hiding your peer-reviewed scholarly-research-publishing pseudonym from us in order to appear to just be a computer geek-turned poker pro?
I am against all affirmative action and quota-based hiring or admissions systems. Completely contrary to the goal of being a colorblind society.
I’m actually in agreement with you here, but I still want race-based stats to be collected in order to prevent being completely blindsided by institutionalized racism in case the relaxation of af-act is seen by some folks as an opportunity to intentionally engage in unchecked racial discrimination.
I am against heavy regulation of businesses, though I do feel that intelligent, light regulation is the way to go. (Go ahead and laugh, Sanlmar.)
Sanlmar appropriately laughs at you on this matter because “intelligent, light regulation” is a platitude that allows profoundly stupid ideas to be adopted into and grossly undermine the effectiveness of intended regulation
I am very pro-free-speech, which used to be an area where I agreed with the left. Now the left has mostly abandoned free speech, and
the right has taken over the cause.
I’m pro-free-speech, also. But don’t be so quick to laud “the right” for currently carrying the torch for this very necessary public right. For example, google “anti-BDS legislation” to see how the religious right is trying to use the power of the government to punish people and businesses that express support for BDS.