Social Issues: Right-wing with a Libertarian streak
Abortion: Strongly oppose. Provide government incentives for adoption and counseling for pregnant women who have been raped or sexually coerced. No taxpayer funding for abortions and no abortions for those under the age of 18.
Same-Sex Marriage: Abolish federal marriages and make it a religious decision. Opposes drag queen story time and puberty blockers and transition surgery for those under the age of 18. Opposed to the idea of trans athletes playing on the team represented of their gender, but it is a local decision.
Drugs: Decriminalize, focus on rehabilitation vs. punishment. Let states decide on legalizing marijuana.
Death Penalty: Strongly Oppose
Gun Control: Generally oppose, except for red-flag laws with due process and a voluntary buyback assault weapon program with financial incentives, but no mandatory buyback or confiscation programs.
Affirmative Action: Oppose, but support multicultural programs to improve race relations, excluding radical programs such as CRT.
Euthanasia: Strongly Oppose, although artificial life support/DNR's can be used
Prostitution: Decriminalize with rehabilitation
Criminal Justice: No for-profit prisons. Supports a European-style prison-reform where rehabilitation is emphasized over punishment. Nobody that commits a victimless crime should be imprisoned, except for financial crimes including tax evasion and insider trading. The UK Anti-social behavior order law of the '90s could be beneficial, but it could use some tweaking.
Surveillance: No warrantless spying. Repeal the Patriot Act. Feds can have access to personal information (internet searches, phone calls, emails) if a warrant is issued.
Police: Abolish qualified immunity, require body cameras. Supports Tim Scott's proposal for police reform during the last senate session. Increase police budget. Hire more officers in schools. More police in high-crime areas. Support police-initiated community programs in majority-minority neighborhoods.
Immigration: Opposes mass immigration. Crackdown on illegal immigration and deport immigrants with a criminal record and impose stiff fines on those who do not. Immigration should prioritize political and religious refugees. No more than 350,000 new immigrants a year. Supports a border wall and programs to stop drug/human trafficking and smuggling.
Religious Freedom: Allow those of different religions to practice freely. Supports public displays of the 10 Commandments, as well as the Statue of Baphomet. Supports voluntary school prayer and the discussion of religion in public schools, as long as the religion is not being used to force children to think/believe in a different way. The Bible can be used for historical/literature purposes etc. Religious holidays should not be observed unless a majority of families in the school district approve.
Freedom of Speech: Strongly supports, as long as it is non-threatening.
Property rights: People should own what is there's. The state should not take people's property for any use, unless there is a majority vote for those living in the area in which would be impacted.
Poverty: Supports programs to eliminate poverty including subsidized/affordable housing for the homeless.
Economic Issues: Center-left
Minimum Wage: Living wage for large/multinational corporations. Bartering for small businesses that cannot afford a living wage (allow businesses to pay employees under the minimum wage if they provide housing, food etc.). Support a NIT with a receiving cap of $30,000.
Tax rates: Support a balanced budget. Focus should be on military spending cuts and cracking down on tax loopholes/evasion, but raise taxes if the budget cannot be balanced.
Monopolies: Strongly support on large & multinational corporations. Support robust antitrust legislation.
Healthcare: Single-payer with private insurance option.
Social security: Remove the payroll tax cap.
Trade: Nation should be self-sustaining with a system of autarky. Minimize imports/exports whenever possible. Supported Trump's trade war with China. 20% base tariff on imported goods with higher or lower tariffs depending on the supply/demand.
Environment: Increase subsidies and research for renewable energy. Free college and temporary income for oil/coal/gas workers until they transition into green jobs. Abolish fossil fuel subsidies.
Education: Vouchers for low-income households for children to attend charter and/or religious schools. Supports the law Gov. DeSantis signed requiring schools to teach the ideology of extreme ideologies including Communism. Opposes free college. Teachers should have body cameras for parents to access or be required to be available on a social media site such as Zoom.
Transit: Free public transportation if they use renewable energy. Improve on existing railroads. Weary about creating new highways and railroads due to eminent domain and redlining concerns.
Stimulus/Jobs: Opposes corporate bailouts. Supports stimuli money to help those in sectors who have been laid off during times of recessions. Supports mass public work/infrastructure projects to combat unemployment. Supports a jobs guarantee program similar to the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act. Strongly supports unions , as well as economic democracy.
Foreign Policy: Dovish/Isolationist
Foreign Intervention: Oppose except for in cases where The United States was attacked/clear evidence it is going to be attacked. Mainly focus on sanctions/travel embargoes during times of peace. Travel and trade to countries with human rights abuses should be prohibited, unless the traveler has family living in said country. Opposes regime change wars.
China: Attempt to push back in a realistic manner to avoid a global depression.
Israel: Pro-Israel
Iran: Anti-Iran nuclear deal.
India: Improve relations against the influence of Iran.
Allies: Focus on improving relations with South Korea & Japan against the influence of China & North Korea.
NATO: Oppose
UN: Oppose, but it seems unrealistic to pull out. Instead decrease funding and focus on state & local programs and guidelines.
Defense budget: Reduce by 20%, remove all inactive troops and close overseas bases. Accelerate to attempt to create a full-technology, minimal solider military.
Territories: Strongly oppose. Territories should hold referendums to become states or become independent.
Foreign Aid: Oppose except for during times of war.
Electoral Reform: Anti-Corruption/Pro-People
Electoral College: Abolish it. Ranked choice voting.
Gerrymandering: Should be decided by a nonpartisan commission.
Term Limits: Opposed except for executive offices.
Voter ID: Strongly support
Voter Registration: Automatic registration for legal citizens.
Voting age: Keep at 18
Mandatory voting: Strongly opposed
Statehood: Support due to referendum results
Filibuster: Strongly support
Direct Democracy: Strongly support.
Supreme Court: Keep the 9 current justices, but future elections should be nonpartisan and elected by the people, similar to how they elect them in Wisconsin.
I think some of my stances have changed enough for an update:
What's changed:
Social issues: Right-libertarian
Affirmative Action: Ensure there's clear lines against discrimination. Businesses have the right to deny service to any group of their choice as long as there is a sign on their door.
Criminal Justice: Rather than decriminalize victimless crimes like my similar proposal (gambling, pornography, recreational drug use, prostitution etc.) , I think reforming the criminal justice system into a tier-3 rehabilitation system for these crimes would be better. All of these would be followed by additional outpatient counseling/therapy and/or job placement support if needed.
Tier 1 (low-level): No physical addiction. 30 days of inpatient treatment
Tier 2 (medium level): Risk of physical addition. 60 days of inpatient treatment
Tier 3 (high-risk): Physical addiction. 90 days of inpatient treatment.
Prisons:
Those who commit nonviolent crimes including financial crimes should after initial arrest/booking, serve their sentence on house arrest with a GPS bracelet device and confiscation of personal electronics traded in for a phone/computer owned by the state until their sentence is over. No more prison sentences, instead it is based off of evidence of risk, remorse, rehabilitation, and psychological well being.
Maximum security: For violent and/or sexual offenders. Same as our current prison sentence, but sentencing would be replaced with yearly hearings to determine risk level/psychological health for crimes that would merit over a year of jail time.
Minimum security: For those that are homeless or evicted during their house arrest sentence. Homeless individuals who are not serving sentences can come and go as they please as well for food and shelter on a vacancy basis.
Police: Similar to before only I now support a system of hiring mental health officers during non-violent calls (a new mental health hotline), as well as more funding for community/social programs to reduce crime.
Immigration: Keep ICE but only have them focus on deportation of violent offenders/ensuring catch & release doesn't occur. Divert some ICE funding to the states and have them determine their protocol of what they would do if a criminal crosses the border. Suspend immigration during public health/terrorism crises temporarily but reopen as soon as possible. Primary focus on ICE should be crime reduction. No welfare for illegal immigrants, until they receive citizenship. State/Local governments should decide whether or not to allow voting in those elections but not nationally. States should decide whether or not to build a border wall. Total of 300,000 new citizens a year with a merit based system, but deport anyone who has a history of violence, sexual, or financial offenses. Exempt those fleeing from countries with human rights abuses, as well as those who are facing religious persecution in which they would be allowed citizenship.
Freedom of Speech: Support. Warrants stemming from free speech should only be issued if there is undeniable evidence that someone is about to commit a crime.
Property rights: Right to private property, government should not take land, strong enforcement of eminent domain.
Economics: Center
Minimum Wage: Allow states to set their own minimum wage. NIT with a receiving line at the poverty line with net payment including taxes, adjusted every year during inflation.
Trade: Similar only with more of an emphasis of supporting localism.
Welfare: Require weekly meetings with a social worker or case manager for all welfare recipients to track their status (job searching, any mental health problems if applicable, get help for any addictions if applicable etc). Terminate benefits once they have received a job, unless they are under the poverty line or a recipient of social security.
Environment: End subsidies and allow the free market to determine the cheapest form of energy. Jobs should be determined by the free market.
Education: Increase vouchers to all those who cannot afford the tuition to send their child to a religious or charter school (not just low-income). Still opposes the idea of free college but supports the idea of free vocational/trade schools. Send education to the state/local levels. Parents have a right to determine their childs education.
Transportation: Should be managed by the cities/states they serve.
Stimulus/Jobs:
Unions should be curbed of their corrupt excesses but union members should still be at the forefront of creating a more democratic economy. Bring back guilds.
Foreign Policy: Still dovish/isolationist
Military: Keep military-related pensions but still focus on foreign/domestic peace keeping.
Lift travel embargoes but restrict trade with countries with clear human rights abuses (with the exception of China).
Form a temporary axis of Asian countries to influence The Middle East/Far-East (India, South Korea, Japan, etc.).
Foreign Aid: Oppose in almost all cases
Term limits: Should be up to the constituents but pass legislation prohibiting them from getting bought & paid for.
Voting Age: 18 (lower if one can pass a test to prove knowledge of American history, politics, history etc.).
