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What are you on social policy, economic policy, immigration, and foreign policy?

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Social policy - Natural rights libertarian... Basically, a libertarian extremist hell bent on legalizing every drug and allowing an extremely permissive society where the non-aggression principle dominates.
If it were up to me, police would not have the legal authority to use for to stop a person from jumping the Golden Gate bridge, becuase it's better to let them die than violate their right to kill themselves.

Economic policy - Consequentialist libertarian... Despite having a predominate laissez faire view on the economy, I understand the need for government. I'm supporting of social safety nets such as guaranteed minimum income and I'm willing to use Keynesian policies to achieve economic prosperity for every working person

Immigration - Conservative... Secure the boarders... Libertarians are ****ing idiots on the boarder, and democrats just wanna expand their voting base as well as the welfare state... Libertarians are dumb, and think it's a good idea to have open boarders... Democrats are smart, they want open boarders to increase political authority.
I would like to be trendy and say I'm "alt-right"... I definitely think that Sweden is insane

Foreign Policy - predominately paleo-conservative... However, when you look at the American revolution, and remember we needed France to help us... I don't think that we should be against intervention 100%, especially if a nation asks us for help.
I don't think we should be a nation of cowards who refuse to help other nation, even though we would not exist without help... However, the way neo-cons have went about it has definitely been a failure.
But despite that I'm not throwing the baby out with the bath water and holding an isolationist stance.
 
Social policy: Libertarian. Your freedom ends where my nose begins. If your liberty doesn't impinge on mine, then you're free to do as you please and take the consequences for your own decisions.

Economic policy: The days of lasses faire capitalism are over. Technology is proceeding at a logarithmic pace, and production is following. Fewer and fewer people are needed to produce more and more goods. Meanwhile, jobs are being exported to third world nations that don't pay enough salary for the workers to be able to purchase the goods they produce. The result is efficient production, but inefficient distribution. Government has to step up and address this situation.

Immigration: Illegals are being exploited as a cheap labor force that has a strong incentive to keep their collective mouths shut or be deported. That needs to end. The employers of illegals need to be fined enough to discourage their hiring. People who have been living in the USA and paying taxes in the USA and working here should be able to go home, go to an American embassy, and get a green card to come back legally and with a path to citizenship. Such people are an asset despite having come here illegally. Neither Democrats nor Republicans want to end the exploitation of illegal labor, because their donors include employers of illegals.

Foreign policy: No more wars to make the world safe for democracy or win hearts and minds or build nations. No more Iraq or Vietnam. If we go to war, it should be with a formal declaration of war as required by the Constitution and with the goal of an absolute victory. If we can't do that, then we don't go off on military adventures.

Medical care: When a third world nation has citizens who can't afford health care, it's a tragedy. When one of the wealthiest nations in the world has citizens who can't afford health care, it's a travesty. When the government can't come up with a workable plan to provide health care to all of its citizens, it's a failure to govern. What we're seeing today is just that: a failure of government.
 
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