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Would you vote for a party that stands with the Green Party on environmental policies and healthcare. In the middle with economic policies and agricultural policies. Libertarian in regards to civil liberties/private businesses.
Would you vote for a party that stands with the Green Party on environmental policies and healthcare. In the middle with economic policies and agricultural policies. Libertarian in regards to civil liberties/private businesses.
Still need environmental and worker safety regulations... corporations and government both need regulation, it's individuals who should have maximum personal rights and not be subject to a nanny state where everything is banned and regulated to protect people from themselves.
Garbage like those new safety gas cans would be a thing of the past, the war on drugs would be over, the war on guns would be over, yet we'd have universal healthcare and good environmental regulations in place among other things. Anybody that can speak fluent english and prove they will be an asset to society can become a citizen, but no refugee importing and we wall off the border to keep out illegals. Maybe we just make everyone a citizen but we can't very well be so far left wing that we support every single person who refuses to work and just become a big bankrupt welfare state either. No bailouts of big corporations.... bankruptcy is a natural result of economic excesses. It allows consolidation and allows bad and corrupt management to be weeded out of the system. No farmer subsidies to not grow crops to boost the price... government can keep it's hand out of the commodity markets. I could go on....
I can go along with the greens on some environmental issues but overall the greens are too far to the left for my taste. I read an interview with Jill Stein the other day and she came across as a classic Marxist. On the other hand, the libertarians are pro-business to the point of ignoring what might be some real environmental problems (climate change). So I don't see much common ground for the greens and libertarians.
Think there be a balance. As they be green being pro environment and pro farmers. Then in the middle with economic development, military, and businesses. Then Libertarian with restoring more rights to States, protecting the Constitution, protecting individuals Liberties.
A lot of people seem to think it's a liberal fusion of the entirely of both the Green party and the Libertarian party; it's not.
Green is just being what it's usually identified with; a generally progressive view that the state does have a responsibility to ensure the environment is in stable conditions and not allowing anyone, corporations specifically, to do harm to it for the pursuit of personal gain. The Libertarian part seems less a nod to Libertarianism as a philosophy (the view that the state's role is to protect people only from force or fraud) and more to the concept of libertarianism as being the opposite of authoritarianism. The way that works is not looking at this an a left/right spectrum, but as a planar issue involving a left/right economic line and a top/bottom social liberty line. This allows us to distinguish people who would be Marxists but not advocates for the rigid authoritarian Stalinist communism that we saw in the Soviet Union.
It's a party I'd respect and have no issue voting for. I'd say they're better than both the two major parties we have, which have been watered down to the point of being ideologically indescribable.
Will separate itself from major corporations and do away with government red tape.
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