Friday, April 17, 2009

A Brief Word Concerning My Political Position

I have blogged about politics and news a great deal here, and I dont want anyone to get the wrong idea about my general philisophy. I believe Ive trashed on both liberal and conservative points in a number of blogs and I have recently posted a hate-piece on Bill-O, which puts the odds of me being a republican at astronomical numbers. See, I fit into the nook of Libertarianism, which in general outlines the following principals, what ill call, the 7 commandments of Libertarianism.

1. Very literal and strict view of the constitution, IE. what is there, you follow.
2. Personal liberties are of the highest priority (which is usually why people peg me for a progressive democrat), the liberties should be universal for everyone in the United States, especially pointing to the issue of gay marriage.
3. Abortion should be considered a personal liberty for women (I agree with this statement, but I definately do not condone government sponsored abortion clinics nor do I agree morally on an abortion but it is a liberty women should have.)
4. No meddling in otherworldly affairs IE. we should not be the policemen of the world (I wholeheartedly agree with this statement, we should bring every troop home from every country in the world, and we have them literally everywhere, this would allow us to better defend our homeland and protect our borders.)
5. No pre-emptive wars, (the entire idea of preemptive war is shady, especially when we are spoon fed horrendous intelligence).
6. The federal bank should be abolished, we as a country have not been out of debt since the Andrew Jackson presidency 200 years ago, only because Jackson destroyed the federal bank, and the moment his presidency ended, it was rebuilt and we went straight back to debt and inflation.
7. Less programs, Our government is chock full of useless programs, useless people and useless ideas, we audit every program to see exactly what its accomplishing, reduce-add-or nullify according to the information, and thus reduce taxes on the people.

I realize that publically blogging on my personal political stance may come off as self centered and unneeded, (at least it gives me a chance to spread the ideology of libertarianism!) but my political stance basically makes me a moderate, so I tell in order to show my lack of bias towards republicans and democrats. In general, my stance makes me chose between the lesser of 2 evils when it comes to election times, the republican values generally suit the libertarian need more, however, the republican party of today makes me physically ill, and I would not support them to save my life, and todays democratic party, where their intentions are good, I doubt their ability to accomplish their massive agenda. 

2 comments:

Aqueous Transmission said...

"however, the republican party of today makes me physically ill, and I would not support them to save my life, and todays democratic party, where their intentions are good, I doubt their ability to accomplish their massive agenda."

thanks for clearing that up... makes perfect sense, and i agree to an extent..... well written

Ethan Johnstone said...

thanks for reading