Summary of political beliefs

[RFayette]

Time for an update:

Ideology
Social: Fairly conservative, but somewhat less so than from my fundamentalist phase
Economic: Nationalist conservative
Foreign: Reserved
Political Registration:  Republican (despite I avatar)

Social Policy
Abortion: 100% pro-life except for life of mother and rape/incest
Same Sex Marriage: Mildly oppose
Drugs / Narcotics: Decriminalize, but heavily tax and strongly deter use;
Death Penalty: Support, expand its use to more crimes and reduce time between sentence and execution
Gun Control: 100% oppose
Affirmative Action: Only based on class
Prostitution: Keep it illegal
Right to Die: Assisted suicide should not be permitted IMO
PATRIOT Act/NSA Spying: support, but pretty indifferent
Immigration: Close the border, limit future immigration, deport or require most of those here illegally now to get out, except those who have been in the USA for 7+ years or so.  Also get rid of the H1B program to raise wages for skilled workers in the IT field.


Economic Policy
Minimum Wage: Raise it to $9-10 or so and index it to inflation.  Exempt areas with high unemployment if they vote to do so.
Welfare: Block-grant to states
Social Security:  privatize and/or block-grant
Right-to-Work: Support
Taxation: Flat national sales tax is the ideal
Obamacare: Not a big fan, though I'm OK with expanding Medicaid and some of the cost controls, I don't like the mandates
Trade: Re-negotiate NAFTA, TPP, etc. to help protect American workers.  
Climate Change: Invest more in alternative energy research, spend more on infrastructure to improve transmission efficiency in our grid
Alternative Energy Subsidies: support for R&D, not for existing companies
Keystone XL Pipeline: support

[RFayette]

Been a while since I did this, but:

Economic issues:
Taxes:  Shift to being more consumption based, keep progressivity through rebate
Climate:  fund more research in geoengineering, alternative energy, and adaptation
Regulation:  greatly pare back administrative state
Healthcare:  expand ACA subsidies, incentivize creation of more med schools

Social issues
Abortion:  ban except for life of mother.  I used to see this issue as even more important than religious freedom for non-christian faiths, but now I think that was probably a bridge too far
Gay marriage:  against, especially in light of rise of transgender revolution in part due to lack of perceived significant distinctions between sexes that this exacerbated.  Also discourage gay adoption, as kids really need a mother and father

Foreign policy:  draw back from overseas conflicts, divert more military spending to R&D that can help domestically