>What ideological or policy position do you hold that most other Liberals do not?
I am in favor of vaccine mandates.
Not conditional mandates like ‘you have to get vaccinated if you want this job’ but state legislatures passing bills which mandate that everyone within their borders get vaccinated.
(Medical exemptions would be allowed. Religious exemptions have a fictional basis, and should not be offered.)
>What ideological or policy position do you hold that most other Liberals do not?
I believe that the Iowa caucuses should be first (and that the New Hampshire primary and South Carolina primaries should be held soon thereafter). Not because of tradition, and not as a compromise. I believe that they have earned it.
Through most of 2007, Hillary Clinton was the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. She had the most endorsements and she raised enormous amounts of money. It was ‘her turn’…but the people of Iowa thought the junior senator from Illinois would be a better candidate, and they are why we got eight years of President Barack Obama.
Most states just vote for ‘whoever is already in the lead’. The only states that consistently vote independently are Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina; they’ve earned their role as ‘early vetters’ of presidential candidates.
There’s a reason why (even if it’s not a perfect org) the ACLU supports the decision, and that’s because the question of whether groups of people should be able to organize (including organizing their spending efforts) to speak politically should be a resounding yes.
Does that create problems? Yeah. Can you “buy more speech with more money?” Yup. But that doesn’t mean the decision was wrong. Frankly, I don’t see how you could reverse the decision without making a gaping and possibly fatal hole in the First Amendment.
While secular, peaceful Muslims are good people, Islamists on the other hand are not a compatible (large) political group for peaceful and humane coexistence with the west.
And yes, this goes for the entire spectrum of islamism, from moderates through conservatives, all the way to fundamentalists/terrorists.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, please be advised that “Muslim” and “Islamist” are not remotely the same thing
A lot or Supreme Court stuff – Citizens United was decided correctly, Smith is the correct standard for religious freedom cases, Carson was decided correctly – you get the idea; I am much more supportive of gun control than the typical liberal; and I think that public sector services should be far more orientated towards “users” than “employees”.
I’m a believer in strict school discipline. And no I don’t mean these education theater band-aids like school uniforms either. If your kid sees someone wearing a blue shirt and decides the appropriate response is to get 5 of his friends together and beat the crap out of him, congratulations, he just lost his right to attend a conventional school until such time as he gets his act together, Instead he should go to a Lockdown School.
I have this theory that we run ALL our schools like prisons, with metal detectors, police, etc. because of a few really stupid lowlifes. I’m not talking about the kids with mediocre test scores. I’m talking about the kids whose first reaction to minor shit is literal violence. Instead of turning all of our schools into Prison Lite, all the violent asshole kids get sent to a special Lockdown School where they get all the high-security treatment and none of the good stuff like field trips, proms, any of that.
When they prove they can control their impulses, they can go back to the regular schools.
I support showing valid ID for voting in elections. Believe it upholds the integrity of the whole thing. Could it be made easier? Sure. But proving via a government issued form of ID (ex: passport, Social security card, birth certificate, drivers license) upholds the integrity of our elections.
I don’t give two shits if someone is a Nepo Baby. Age gaps don’t bother me. Gratuitous sex in movies is OK with me. Offensive comedy is sometimes hilarious.
I am much more of a natalist than the average liberal. And I think I am far more likely to support a social policy that benefits children over adults.
I would favor decreasing the power we give parents over their children in some cases. The clearest example of this is that I do not think anybody should get an exemption from vaccinating their children, no matter what sky daddy told them or what their chiropractor says. Only in the case of an actual legitimate doctor with confirmation from another legitimate doctor stating that the child should not get vaccinations shouldn’t exemption be made.
at this point I would consider myself hawkish on immigration, even legal immigration. It seems clear to me that the amount of immigration the US and western Europe has been receiving has been a disaster for the stability of democracy.
I also think the maximum sentence for any crime should be 15 years
I am a capital C capitalist. No other economic technology has produced so much prosperity and equity. Women didn’t enjoy broad equal rights until capitalism. Slavery was largely abolished…under capitalism. It isn’t perfect as a technology, no technology is, but it is FAR better than what we had before.
-Democrats have become weak and servile and need to grow a fucking spine. LBJ and FDR are rolling in their graves over how much performative longing party leadership does for the days of a “sTrOnG rEpUbLiCaN pArTy”. Not investigating ppl like Joe Manchin for obvious corruption and conflicts of interest (or at least threatening to do so when it could’ve scared him straight on things like BBB or the filibuster) because it would be “too mean” and “look too political”? Yeah fuck that.
-Everyone involved in Jan 6 should’ve been arrested at the scene and charged with actual insurrection and/or terrorism, if not fired on with live ammunition. If Lincoln could shut down the entire state of Maryland for a year over just the threat of them seceding, we absolutely could’ve nipped that existential threat to Democracy in the bud heavy handedly. How can we expect the average voter to believe us when we say the Republicans are a threat to Democracy if we don’t even act like we believe ourselves?
-Merrick Garland should’ve never been anywhere near the AG’s office, and whoever Biden did appoint should’ve been someone willing to charge Trump with treason or at the very least insurrection, and on a reasonable timeframe that would’ve taken care of this long before the election. Stop appointing useless ppl who don’t meet the moment to things because “iT’s ThEiR tUrN” or whatever. We are the leaders of the free world defending our democracy, not children on the playground trying to figure out who gets to use the seesaw next.
-Israel should be treated like 1980s South Africa until they accept a 2SS or one equal state and this panic over protesters at Columbia or wherever the fuck is neo-McCarthyism. Similarly, groups like AIPAC should be treated as foreign lobbying organizations for advocating on behalf of a foreign government, even if their donors happen to be homegrown.
-Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children for any non-medical reason should be charged with child neglect
-Selfish NIMBYs in blue states need to stop pushing for all these oppressive zoning and permitting regulations that make housing impossible to build. Your boner for high property values is actively causing the homelessness crisis and blue state depopulation.
-Every major city should have their own equivalent to the subway system
-Radfems are conservatives who coat reactionary beliefs like gender essentialism, slutshaming, and controlling women’s bodies in a progressive coat of paint and should not be welcome in any liberal or progressive movement worth their salt
-Billionaires should not exist as that is simply too much money for any one person to have and more than any individual person could reasonably spend in their lifetime. No one should have the power to, for example, buy an entire social media platform because they got drunk one night and were mad their daughter came out as trans. Once they hit $999,999,999, just reroute all their subsequent income above that into taxes and mail them a “congratulation, you won capitalism!” trophy.
I support gun ownership and the 2nd Amendment. At least as long as everyone else has guns. After all, we see the immense danger inherent in allowing the other side to overpower us. If we liberals give up our guns, only the Trump cult will have guns. (Now try to sleep tonight after envisioning that.)
The death penalty is weird, I absolutely believe people exist that deserve to die but I don’t believe a system exists that’s 100% fair and I’d rather let a bunch of people who should die live than accidentally kill an innocent person.
I’m pro sustainable population / anti extreme levels of migration.
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I’m not giving up my 2nd amendment.
This 2024 election is exactly why we need an armed populace.
I think pragmatism is an easy out: it’s a way to support mostly meaningless but feel-good policy that just enables the right.
>What ideological or policy position do you hold that most other Liberals do not?
I am in favor of vaccine mandates.
Not conditional mandates like ‘you have to get vaccinated if you want this job’ but state legislatures passing bills which mandate that everyone within their borders get vaccinated.
(Medical exemptions would be allowed. Religious exemptions have a fictional basis, and should not be offered.)
I think stability is valuable.
>What ideological or policy position do you hold that most other Liberals do not?
I believe that the Iowa caucuses should be first (and that the New Hampshire primary and South Carolina primaries should be held soon thereafter). Not because of tradition, and not as a compromise. I believe that they have earned it.
Through most of 2007, Hillary Clinton was the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. She had the most endorsements and she raised enormous amounts of money. It was ‘her turn’…but the people of Iowa thought the junior senator from Illinois would be a better candidate, and they are why we got eight years of President Barack Obama.
Most states just vote for ‘whoever is already in the lead’. The only states that consistently vote independently are Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina; they’ve earned their role as ‘early vetters’ of presidential candidates.
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We had a similar question yesterday, so I’ll repeat my answer. I’m a big fan of tariffs. It’s the area I most agree with Trump on.
I would absolutely be open to voting for a republican or candidate of a different party
Anyone who does not pose a danger to themselves or others should be able to buy and own just about any kind of firearm.
Housing and healthcare are basic human rights
Citizens United vs FEC was correctly decided.
There’s a reason why (even if it’s not a perfect org) the ACLU supports the decision, and that’s because the question of whether groups of people should be able to organize (including organizing their spending efforts) to speak politically should be a resounding yes.
Does that create problems? Yeah. Can you “buy more speech with more money?” Yup. But that doesn’t mean the decision was wrong. Frankly, I don’t see how you could reverse the decision without making a gaping and possibly fatal hole in the First Amendment.
While secular, peaceful Muslims are good people, Islamists on the other hand are not a compatible (large) political group for peaceful and humane coexistence with the west.
And yes, this goes for the entire spectrum of islamism, from moderates through conservatives, all the way to fundamentalists/terrorists.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, please be advised that “Muslim” and “Islamist” are not remotely the same thing
A lot or Supreme Court stuff – Citizens United was decided correctly, Smith is the correct standard for religious freedom cases, Carson was decided correctly – you get the idea; I am much more supportive of gun control than the typical liberal; and I think that public sector services should be far more orientated towards “users” than “employees”.
Economic growth =/= improving human well being (ya know, the thing we care about)
Gun rights. I support them for the most part, besides making sure mentally insane people don’t get them.
I’m a slight right-winger on education.
I’m a believer in strict school discipline. And no I don’t mean these education theater band-aids like school uniforms either. If your kid sees someone wearing a blue shirt and decides the appropriate response is to get 5 of his friends together and beat the crap out of him, congratulations, he just lost his right to attend a conventional school until such time as he gets his act together, Instead he should go to a Lockdown School.
I have this theory that we run ALL our schools like prisons, with metal detectors, police, etc. because of a few really stupid lowlifes. I’m not talking about the kids with mediocre test scores. I’m talking about the kids whose first reaction to minor shit is literal violence. Instead of turning all of our schools into Prison Lite, all the violent asshole kids get sent to a special Lockdown School where they get all the high-security treatment and none of the good stuff like field trips, proms, any of that.
When they prove they can control their impulses, they can go back to the regular schools.
I’m isolationist. We have enough problems to fix here
I think that campaign finance reform is fundamentally the most important policy issue.
I support showing valid ID for voting in elections. Believe it upholds the integrity of the whole thing. Could it be made easier? Sure. But proving via a government issued form of ID (ex: passport, Social security card, birth certificate, drivers license) upholds the integrity of our elections.
I am a socialist, so one of the key issues where I disagree with liberals on is the need to get rid of capitalism over time.
The West Wing was a boring show.
I don’t give two shits if someone is a Nepo Baby. Age gaps don’t bother me. Gratuitous sex in movies is OK with me. Offensive comedy is sometimes hilarious.
Anything that crosses into socialism.
I am much more of a natalist than the average liberal. And I think I am far more likely to support a social policy that benefits children over adults.
I would favor decreasing the power we give parents over their children in some cases. The clearest example of this is that I do not think anybody should get an exemption from vaccinating their children, no matter what sky daddy told them or what their chiropractor says. Only in the case of an actual legitimate doctor with confirmation from another legitimate doctor stating that the child should not get vaccinations shouldn’t exemption be made.
at this point I would consider myself hawkish on immigration, even legal immigration. It seems clear to me that the amount of immigration the US and western Europe has been receiving has been a disaster for the stability of democracy.
I also think the maximum sentence for any crime should be 15 years
I am a capital C capitalist. No other economic technology has produced so much prosperity and equity. Women didn’t enjoy broad equal rights until capitalism. Slavery was largely abolished…under capitalism. It isn’t perfect as a technology, no technology is, but it is FAR better than what we had before.
I would sacrifice everyone on earth for immortality
Hoo boy is the list long
-Democrats have become weak and servile and need to grow a fucking spine. LBJ and FDR are rolling in their graves over how much performative longing party leadership does for the days of a “sTrOnG rEpUbLiCaN pArTy”. Not investigating ppl like Joe Manchin for obvious corruption and conflicts of interest (or at least threatening to do so when it could’ve scared him straight on things like BBB or the filibuster) because it would be “too mean” and “look too political”? Yeah fuck that.
-Everyone involved in Jan 6 should’ve been arrested at the scene and charged with actual insurrection and/or terrorism, if not fired on with live ammunition. If Lincoln could shut down the entire state of Maryland for a year over just the threat of them seceding, we absolutely could’ve nipped that existential threat to Democracy in the bud heavy handedly. How can we expect the average voter to believe us when we say the Republicans are a threat to Democracy if we don’t even act like we believe ourselves?
-Merrick Garland should’ve never been anywhere near the AG’s office, and whoever Biden did appoint should’ve been someone willing to charge Trump with treason or at the very least insurrection, and on a reasonable timeframe that would’ve taken care of this long before the election. Stop appointing useless ppl who don’t meet the moment to things because “iT’s ThEiR tUrN” or whatever. We are the leaders of the free world defending our democracy, not children on the playground trying to figure out who gets to use the seesaw next.
-Israel should be treated like 1980s South Africa until they accept a 2SS or one equal state and this panic over protesters at Columbia or wherever the fuck is neo-McCarthyism. Similarly, groups like AIPAC should be treated as foreign lobbying organizations for advocating on behalf of a foreign government, even if their donors happen to be homegrown.
-Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children for any non-medical reason should be charged with child neglect
-Social media companies should be bought out by the federal government and run at a loss as a public utility, with only moderation being outsourced to a third party company to prevent governmental control of free speech. Same should go for dating apps as well. The toxic combination of corporate profit incentives and mass media have been an utter disaster for the human species.
-Medicare for all
-Selfish NIMBYs in blue states need to stop pushing for all these oppressive zoning and permitting regulations that make housing impossible to build. Your boner for high property values is actively causing the homelessness crisis and blue state depopulation.
-Every major city should have their own equivalent to the subway system
-Radfems are conservatives who coat reactionary beliefs like gender essentialism, slutshaming, and controlling women’s bodies in a progressive coat of paint and should not be welcome in any liberal or progressive movement worth their salt
-Billionaires should not exist as that is simply too much money for any one person to have and more than any individual person could reasonably spend in their lifetime. No one should have the power to, for example, buy an entire social media platform because they got drunk one night and were mad their daughter came out as trans. Once they hit $999,999,999, just reroute all their subsequent income above that into taxes and mail them a “congratulation, you won capitalism!” trophy.
I support gun ownership and the 2nd Amendment. At least as long as everyone else has guns. After all, we see the immense danger inherent in allowing the other side to overpower us. If we liberals give up our guns, only the Trump cult will have guns. (Now try to sleep tonight after envisioning that.)
Nuclear energy is cool.
Why does this get asked once a week?
Nuclear power is sufficiently safe, considerably cleaner than most alternatives and cost effective.
I’m anti-abortion and generally against income and property taxes
The death penalty is weird, I absolutely believe people exist that deserve to die but I don’t believe a system exists that’s 100% fair and I’d rather let a bunch of people who should die live than accidentally kill an innocent person.
I’m pro sustainable population / anti extreme levels of migration.
I don’t like M4A. I want universal health care, but not that way
So patents expire after a period of time. I think they should also expire after a number of gross profits.
I love guns and I think that right should be untouched (for the most part).