Small-L libertarian, with a large addition of paleoconservative. Or, largely what Loach and Dallas Jones said. I’d settle for [P.J.] O’Rourke-Republican, if such a group title existed. Albeit I’m not as eager to have the country go to war, judging by Give War A Chance
As Loach also basically noted above, and with apologies to Dennis Miller, having views like those here puts me somewhat the right of Albert Speer. Which is fine; I don’t need a similar outlook to someone in order to be civil, and I learn just so much here from reading and communicating with you all.
I don’t label myself. I feel that political labels are primarily used to create in-groups. And then used to exclude and defame others outside the group. It’s a waste of my time to defend the policy of someone else who happens to use the same label I’d use for myself.
I suppose “Libertarian Conservative” would best describe my political ideology. I am mostly libertarian, as I am a supporter of individual liberty, inalienable rights, limited government, laissez faire capitalism, state rights, and low taxes. I am conservative on borders (I believe we need strong borders) and abortion (I think it should be illegal).
I used to say “libertarian-ish” because I’m down with the whole “let people do whatever they want, end prohibition and foreign wars” thing, but wanted to distance myself from the goldbug, “end the Fed”, militia type, woo fringe.
But now I just call myself an anarchist, because I basically don’t approve of a single thing governments do*. At best, they just fix problems they caused. At worst (and lately this seems to be approaching “on average” :(), they are simply evil incarnate. Also, anarchy doesn’t seem to have a lot of preconceived ideologies attached to it. Or maybe it does, but many conflicting ideologies. Either way, nobody assumes I’m something I’m not because of that label. They have to ask to find out.
*Fire protection and roads are cool, but they’re just financed by government, not actually what most people think of as “the government”. And people can (and do) pool resources to fund important large scale projects without government help all the time. Anarchy isn’t the lack of all large cooperative organizations, only those in which membership is involuntary and maintained with the threat of deadly force.
I’m all over the map.
Strong 2nd Amendment supporter. (Do not support the NRA)
Kind of conservative on immigration.
I don’t think showing an ID to vote is unreasonable.
Very pro environment.
Pro gay rights
Pro equal rights amendment.
Pro single payer health care.
Pro legalization.
Name an issue and I’m likely at one end of the spectrum or the other.