- That free trade and economic globalization are overall, very good things
- That capitalism, despite everything, is still better than other economic systems
- That Western environmentalism often does more harm than good in regard to the developing world
- That foreign policy is a hell of a lot more complicated in practice than what liberalism/idealism has to say on the matter
- That Israel, for all of its policies and actions of which I am seriously disturbed by, is still worth defending from the pervasive anti-Semitism that is still very much a thing in the current year - whether it comes from the Western Right, the Western Left, or the "Islamic world" (if such a ridiculously broad term is even applicable)
- That anti-intellectualism - while still abhorrent and deeply unfortunate - is perfectly understandable from ordinary people when they recognize (and they do recognize) that elite intellectuals (and the economic and political elites whom they support) don't actually give a sh*t about them except as a source of "legitimacy" or whatever
- That irrational and contradictory views are not only unavoidable, but an essential part of what it means to be a living, breathing, subjective human being with these things called feelings, beliefs, emotions, and values
- And finally, that people who fancy themselves as "intellectual" or "rational" are almost inevitably the worst offenders in terms of rationalizing and dressing up in the veil of "respectability" their blind, arrogant hubris and worldviews - which are every bit as irrational as anyone's. And I'm as guilty as anyone in this regard, though I guess I recognize it in myself, so that's a start! 
In spite of everything I still don't really agree on the first two, but towards the end this is one of the best posts I've seen on the forum in a long time.
-Abortion, at any stage
-Marijuana legalization
-Seperation of Church and State
-Free Trade
-Evolution
-Transgender Rights
-Atheism
-Premarital Sex
-Pornography
-Negative Income Tax
-Universal Healthcare
-Secularism
Several of these are very good things, but the list as a whole reads like something out of that one Walker Percy novel.
