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I'm socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in the rights of individuals. I believe that the larger government becomes, the more corrupt it becomes - it's in it's very nature.
I am far left but not liberal, because the liberal is running too many trivial agendas and is merely static in the real war. I am taking a position of digging my heels in against the juggernaut of oligarchy, mainly as a futile exercise in cynicism. There is no visible left in the US, Americans would be shocked beyond belief if the media ever even mentioned the name of someone left of center.
My inclination as I have become older doesn't have a sharp focus. The way the words "conservative" and "liberal" are used in the U.S. in a political context often strikes me as totally ridiculous, so I wouldn't use either one because what I mean by them and what they mean in the everyday political chitchat doesn't necessarily have much overlap. I tend to feel that politicians on the whole are prostitutes those with money and financial power, and the politicians in turn poison the general population with buckets of political swill that feed its worst inclinations and silliest obsessions.
Popular politics has become a kind of crude X Factor entertainment exhibition, and what really matters and moves and shakes the world is in the hands of a relatively small number of people who have no need to participate in show business for the masses.
I have no feeling that my vote matters beyond the local level. I am a cipher, a non-event in the political realm. What has mattered and continues to matter is the extent of my participation in society in a hands-on way in what might called where-the-rubber-hits-the-road activities. Where I have volunteered my after-work time, and the people and relatively small organizations that I have given money to define my societal inclination. Overall I have been willing to give (and fortunately been in a position to give) far more of my time than most people, and have habitually given generous chunks of a small income to people and small organizations whose work I trust and believe in. This is not motivated by nobility of character so as much as by a profound cynicism that to do the same with my time and income in political activity would be no different than wiping my backside with it and flushing it down the toilet.
Liberal Centrist. In foreign policy more centre-right, in domestic policy more centre-left.
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