[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Myself for example, I’m pretty left on social issues
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No, you’re not.[/quote]
lol. I’m taking your attention to this matter as a compliment.
[quote]nighthawkz wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Myself for example, I’m pretty left on social issues, and pretty right on fiscal issues[/quote]
That’s funny considering how closely related the two are.
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Sure, but you have to understand I do think in terms of “political reality” and “how it should be”. For instance:
I have yet to find a valid legal reason beyond “equal discrimination” for the government to ban Same Sex Marriage. Personally, I couldn’t find two shits to give if two people (shit or 3 or 4) people of the same sex want to get married, but from a governmental perspective, I don’t see the need in saying no. It isn’t 1500 where the infant mortality rates are high and the proliferation of the tax base the utmost importance. We’re breeding just fine, so fine in fact we celebrate the vacuuming of people out of the womb as a “right”.
So I agree that SCOTUS should have overturned Bill Clinton’s DOMA.
I think the War on Drugs is an abysmal failure. Street level people having their entire lives ruined because of weed is an utter joke. While I don’t sit here and say people dealing Meth, Smack and Crack should just be allowed to run around and pass this stuff out, maybe putting them in prison with violent felons isn’t the answer? Work camps maybe? I don’t know what the answers are here, but the current situation isn’t working, and it’s particularly harsh on innercity poor… Yes these people make a choice to sell dope, but at the same time, it’s different set of circumstances than some dude in East Bumfuck Iowa doing it. As there are less people on the hunt in East Bumfuck.
I have a significant amount of empathy for people with less, particularly children in poorer families. That is why I donate my time and money and would do more if I had it within my length. I just know that government intervention isn’t the cure, nor even close to an answer in every case. Things like WIC or Unemployment are good ideas. They are temporary, and in the case of WIC for very specific people and circumstances. Generational welfare… Is just keeping people chained to the government plantation and voting for the same people who’d rather keep them poor than have them vote for someone else.
I could go on, but I’d say the only “social” issue I’m right on is abortion. And that’s only because I understand basic biology and believe it is government’s job to protect the rights of it’s citizens, irrelevant of age, sex, color or creed.
I think crying about income inequality, from Americans, is laughably ridiculous in the vast majority of circumstances. (It also shows a 100% lack of understanding of basic economics.)
I think cries of “give me free shit” from the citizenry is very greedy and disingenuous, and only setting up a nation to fail, and fail hard.
I think the Left has a problem with people being self sufficient unless it’s sexually or driving a Hybrid car. Their stance on business regulation, civil-rights that aren’t sex related and other topics really irks me to be honest. And after growing up brainwashed into the left, time, reading and maturity has brought me much further right than I ever thought I’d be.