Subjects where you diverge from your ideology

[Battista Minola 1616]

The only reason to oppose rejoining the EU is of course it's continued allowance of Hungary and Poland to trample on human rights and juducial independence without pushback. That's an utter failure and has only escalated since I voted to stay in 2020.

It's always (or, well, for the past seven or eight years) astonished and disgusted me that evidently if you're a European head of government the EU is happy to let you shackle the press, demonize migrants, scapegoat gay and trans people, load up your judiciary with ideologues who'd make even American federal judges blush, etc. etc. etc. as much as you like...but God forbid you propose a budget for your country that uses too high a percentage of its GDP.

It sucks, I can guarantee.
And of course the Italian parties who are more loudly against the deficit rule... express support for the governments who do all the awful things you mentioned.

[Battista Minola 1616]

Immigration is probably the biggest one where I depart from left wing orthodoxy. While I don't consider myself anti-immigration I do think it should be reduced and left wing parties should definitely adopt much more conservative positions on it. The Danish social democratic party in this regard seems like a good model to follow for example at least from what I have heard.

Life imprisonment tho?

[Battista Minola 1616]

Immigration is probably the biggest one where I depart from left wing orthodoxy. While I don't consider myself anti-immigration I do think it should be reduced and left wing parties should definitely adopt much more conservative positions on it. The Danish social democratic party in this regard seems like a good model to follow for example at least from what I have heard.

Life imprisonment tho?

Actually I am against life imprisonment; and that is a fairly common thing on the Spanish left.

Its definitely not a popular reform, and the Spanish public is in favour of keeping it. However it is most definitely a left wing position to be against life imprisonment.

I suppose you could argue that my support for federalism and "states rights" is a right wing position (it certainly is one in the US and if I am not mistaken in Italy too); but here that would be very much associated with the left and not the right.

I know that you are against. It's that I had no idea it was fairly common in the Spanish left. I imagined it was a fringe position.

Yes, in Italy federalism/autonomism is usually considered a right-wing position because of Lega, but it's not right or left per se in my opinion. Every nation is different.

[Battista Minola 1616]

I'm much more pro-social spending than most of the Political Calvinists I read. I'm not sure if that really counts though. No one would think twice about my views if I were in a church in say, the Netherlands or Scotland.

Serious question:

Would you vote SGP if you were Dutch?