I’m sort of new to politics…i admittedly have been somewhat indifferent to politics most of my life, but i’ve come to realize with age that there’s a responsibility to stay engaged on how the country is being governed…but first, i guess i have to figure out what i am…a conservative, or a liberal….please help me define what society would regard my beleifs as…
1.- I have a big problem taking my tax-money to give handouts to the capable, but i have no problem having a small amount of it taken to give the few of us who are certifiably incapable, a dignified life.
2.- I beleive war is neccesary at times, but only when truly backed into
a corner, and i beleive some insidious entities exist in this world
who benefit from war, and are chronically trying to make us think
we’re in corners we’re not in, so distinguishing true need from
untrue need can be very difficult in 2009.
3.- I don’t want my freedoms and national culture overmanipulated by
the federal government and elected officials…but i’m equally fearful
of my freedoms and national culture being overmanipulated by
corporations and unelected CEO’s and lobbyists.
4.- I don’t have a problem with gay marriage between two consenting
adults. A law inhibiting the sanctification of two consenting adults
wishing to express love for each other, in a world rife with hatred,
violence, and death…seems to be the last thing we should be
worried about at this point in human history. And I don’t buy the
“slippery slope” argument that 10 years later it’ll be legal for
a pedophile to marry a toddler or a farmer to marry a cow, anymore
than legalizing alchohol has led to our schools giving our kids
Jim Beam as their lunchtime drink. Common sense limitations
will prevail, and 2 consenting adults wishing to sanctify their love
I feel falls within the realm of common sense.
5.- I beleive in the right for responsible gun owners to bare arms, but
I don’t have a problem with limiting that right to individuals without
convictions of violent crimes, adults, and ammunition that in no
way is designed for mere self-protection, sport, or hunting…such as
cop killer bullets, bazookas, ground to air missle launchers, etc.
OBVIOUSLY sensible limitations on the destructive power of a
private citizen’s weaponry has to exist, or otherwise a billionaire
citizen could own his own nuclear bomb if he could afford it, and i
don’t think we want a world like that do we?
6.- Regarding abortion, I beleive in only limited legalization. I feel it
should be legal for minors, women who get corroborative diagnosis
on a condition that would endanger their lives if they brought the
baby to term, and women who get corroborative diagnosis for
a condition that would likely result in childhood death and/or lifelong
incapacitation of the unborn. I beleive when leading scientific data
has found to be the genesis of the human nervous system and
ability to compute pain on a concious level, thereafter in the
pregnancy process should abortion be illegal for healthy fetuses
being carried by healthy adult mothers. I am open to
compassionate yet effective means of prosecution within that
definition.
7.- Regarding global warming, and if it exists or not, I think 99% of people who are convinced it does or doesn’t, are too scientifically ignorant to study the issue personally, thus they’re relying on the heresay of those who fancy themselves “experts”, which either side of that coin can be bought off to proclaim anything at all. That said, it seems that for every scientist stating it’s myth, there’s about 10 stating it’s fact, and it seems a conversion over to energy production
that doesn’t expose miners to collapses, homeowners to mine subsidence, and landscapes to flat-top mountain cutting such as in
West Virginia, is probably a good thing. It also seems rather wise to
not rely on a region of the world that despises us, for our energy. If we can prevent that in the short term by offshore drilling, I’m all for it. But it sure would be a nice bonus if we found a means of doing it that didn’t include dotting our beautful ocean views with oil rigs, and/or opening up largescale oil operations in the last few unspoiled wildernesses America still has.
8.- I’m for the death penalty as an optional sentence for those convicted
of life imprisonment for murder. As an ethical view, i’m not for the
murder of a human life that is not presenting an imminent threat to
society, and considering most of our most heinous killers are in
federal supermax prisons, they no longer are doing that. That said,
if a criminal facing 50 years trapped in a tiny concrete cell 23 hours
a day wants to choose death instead? I’m all