Left or Right - what am I?

First Off---

Welcome to "Ideo-Base", my writings on politics, religions, and secular ideologies; of which the 1-word term for the third is "Irreligions" (singular "Irreligion"). Here, I will discuss philosophies, what I think, and the facts behind them and their results. This blog is so high-maturity that only those 15 or older should have access to it. I will link to external articles for people who don't know a certain word.

What Am I Politically?

I am a right-leaning mix of left and right, not purely either

Argument to Moderation

In essence, I agree with the left on most social policy elements, and I will give examples of political issues later. But as for economics and diplomacy, I say the rightist analysis is just about correct.

I am a Libertarian, not a Conservative

Libertarian Politics

In political aspects, I would definitely identify as a Cultural Liberal, a Minarchist, and a Laissez-Faire Capitalist, and a supporter of multiparty election systems. However, in Foreign Policy, I proudly adopt the hawkish Moderate Conservative mindset (Liberal Internationalism and Wilsonian thought).

The evidence that I am this kind of person:

1. I took the "World's smallest Political Quiz" and my results are 80% on the Social Scale and 100% on the Economic Scale, putting me in the Right-leaning half of the Libertarian block.
1. Separate Scales?
1.  Because the standard left-right compass is severely misleading. Instead, what you need to properly analyze yourself is a 2-dimentional compass: left-right scale and up-down scale, on what is essentially a square-chart.
2. I took the "Political Compass Organization" test of 60 questions and I came out (rounding fractions up) to being 4 blocks to the right and 5 to the bottom, putting me in the purple quadrant (the Libertarian-Right spot, or Liberal-Right if you want to use a smaller word)
3. Select Smart's "Foreign Policy Philosophy Quiz" is the only foreign policy quiz I can find on the net. My number 1 result was "Liberal" as in "Liberal Internationalist", and its number 1 example of like-minded politicians was Woodrow Wilson, the least flawed of any US President (because every politician on Earth is flawed).
4. Bent on proving how non-extreme I am and how I am more Libertarian and less Conservative than this blog's inspiration (Mark Humphry of Dublin Ireland) is, I took the "Libertarian Purity Test" from the purist, "Anarcho-Capitalist" (or simply anarchist) Bryan Caplan, and my score was/is an 84, which is well within the "Medium-core Libertarian" range, which varies from 51 to 90, on a total scale from 0 to 160. Humphrys on the other hand, he scored a 33, putting him in the "soft-core" range, which varies between 16-50 (though Caplan separates this into two ranges, 16-30 and 31-50, the latter meaning "credentials are obvious").

 I am a "Neo"-Libertarian, not a "Paleo"-Libertarian

Paleolibertarian thought

Doctrinaire Libertarians, like most of America's Libertarian Party, tend to be the same but culturally liberal instead of culturally conservative.

Neolibertarians like me are remorselessly hawkish in the face of aggressions from Third World Dictators. Scholar, blogger, and former soldier Dale Franks invented the ideology, with simple tenets specific to his brand of it. The "What Ideology are you?" quiz I took repeatedly and always my number 1 result was "Neolibertarianism".

I first learned the word from the "What Type of Libertarian Are You" quiz on the same website, and it gave elaborate description and examples. The examples of like-minded Americans, apparently (and in my words & fraction-related speculations), are:

• The Republican Party's Liberal faction
• a large minority of Republican Liberty Caucus
• a large minority of the Libertarian Party (myself and my favorite comedians ever [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] included)
• the slight majority of Registered Independents.

American Examples of why I am Neo-libertarian

My DEVOUT Hatred of Censorship & any so-called "human beings" who support it for any reason at all

Whether it is the 2257 obscenity laws that should not exist because they make creative films and shows and songs seem boring, the vile MP-AA's attempt at exterminating the internet via the so-called "Stop Online Piracy Act", their Plan B attempted through the "Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement", YouTube's recent disgusting "Content ID" system, Bill Clinton's legislation of Abstinence-only programs, Bush and Obama BOTH being useless by refusing to repeal them, the teaching of creationism in schools, Clinton criminalizing contraception for unmarried lovers, US Congress forcing anti-rock-music norms onto Americans in the 1950's and 1960's who knew and could prove they did not belong in a Liberal Democracy, or Woodrow Wilson's absolute only flaw of limiting WW1-related talk to just complimentary talk, Censorship should be made a felony via the First Amendment, because ANY form of censorship is overtly Unconstitutional!!! Granted, American media is not fully censored. In fact, America is one of the freest countries in the world for media. Freedom House, the only valid source for social policy legislation around the world, has a yearly report on media freedom around the world. Their scale is between 0 and 100, with 0 being the freest media. America's rating is 18, which means that I live in a country with vigorously free media. So I guess my complaint is that US government behavior warranting the 18 rating is unlawful and that for government to behave in ways that earn my country a rating of 0 would be the only lawful government behavior. The report here.

The post-Wilson presidents (yes, even FDR, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and Obama) causing economic downturn

Ah, the broken economy of America. Well, actually, here is the break-down. The good news is that America has what's called a "Mostly Free" economy. Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom, my preferred source of info on how economies do globally, rates America a 76 out of 100. Unlike Freedom House's reports, the higher an I.E.F. score, the better! 80-100 means Free and 70-79.9 means "mostly free". I and other Americans can freely buy and sell things quite happily, without too many barriers commonly associated with Marxist economies.

The bad news is that our economy is not a Laissez-Faire one, one where only a small number of regulations exist and even then only to protect against fraud, theft, and coercion; one where tariffs, protectionism, handouts and subsidies do not exist. If anything, there are at least a hundred economic regulations, almost none of which have to do with defending people from fraud and coercion or defending property from theft. And what's worse, the progressive tax is the most broken thing you'll find in our economy. People here are taxed differently for earning more income. This is unconstitutional as of the 5th and 14th Amendments and (almost) always punishes stronger work ethics and higher educations (it should be a flat tax where everyone pays 3% locally, 3% federally, and 3% on state level, that way everyone has 91% of their wealth for themselves). What's also bad, Minimum wage laws force everybody to choose between overpricing everything and hiring extremely few people (US government would rather do the above than let employers give bigger paychecks to those who prove stronger work ethics and pursue higher educations). And, to me, the most vile non-tax-related regulation our economy has is the "Legal Tender" laws, as implied directly on the US dollar bill. All these laws do is make it illegal to use anything other than dollars as currency. The ultimate prosperity will be done by an economy that lets people use whatever valuable rarities they want as currency: be it American Dollars, British Shillings, Israeli Shekels, Japanese Yen, Arabic Dinar, European Euros, Emerald, Sapphire, Ruby, Garnet, Gold, Silver, Copper, or even Magnesium; which is a pale gray, lighter-weight but more durable metal than stainless steel.

And speaking of vital public services like Public Education and Public Healthcare, I agree with having them exist, but I do not agree with allowing politicians' ideological biases to force their employee populations to teach or heal in any specific ways. I support letting teachers educate with maximum creativity and factual precision, with government's absolute ONLY hand in it being to pay the teachers, no matter how much one or more politicians disagree with (-insert name of teacher here-). In healthcare, I support having doctors and their patients being the ONLY people with any say in the patient's appointments and in who decides how much the patient pays, with every citizen (including the doctors themselves) having health insurance issued by physicians who know what they're doing and how medical matters work.

The Jihad's attacks on New York City, on Boston, and on its own citizens

Let me clear off right off the bat: I laugh at people who say a non-interventionist foreign policy would have prevented the Boston bombing. Or, in my head I do. Because the opposite is true: the attackers of 9/11 and the attackers of Boston Marathon are the same kind of people: genocidal Islamic-Theocratic guerrilla movements who want as much as Ba'ath Party established armies and Islamic Theocracy established armies do to destroy us just for being a mix of different cultures. It's hard to swallow, but its the truth. I can barely remember his name, but the Boston Bomber was sponsored by an Egyptian group called the "Muslim Brotherhood", a sectarian group that even refuses to listen to Liberal & Libertarian Muslims' voices, for that "brotherhood" only wants to hear from Totalitarian Muslims (there is a difference that I place infinite importance on between the extremist and moderate). I will not bring up 9/11 in this blog, or at least not frequently, for there is nothing I can say about it that has not already been said. Additionally, Boston was the more recent atrocity by the Jihad.

Furthermore, I cannot stand people who pretend we "don't have any business" in the Third World, where Dictators torture, mutilate, starve and execute mass numbers of innocents of all three genders (male, female, hermaphrodite) and of all six age groups (baby, child, teen, young adult, middle-aged, elderly) out of sadistic and paranoid excuses! How can that not be of anyone's concern? If anything, Dictators need to be deposed and trialed for crimes against humanity. And this does not automatically mean using military force. For example, the case of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt is an example of only needing Diplomatic Negotiations to revoke a Tyrant's power. Sometimes Liberal Internationalism can be done through peaceable humanitarian aid, internationalism does not always advocate war! See, not all tyrants are so vile as to absolutely need death, instead there are some who can be effectively deterred by long-time jailing sentence or by other disciplinary means....

What this means I am...

This means I am not a super-Christian war-monger but I am also not a peace-worshiping hippie drunkard. I am pretty much a Middle Ground person.

~KP