@W person cow, if you don't mind, I want your take on the following:
1. I strongly support the legalization of anything and everything so long as it can be used lawfully and it's legalization has far less long term harm than its criminalization. That includes most firearms and any drug like marijuana where the penalties are frankly causing more problems than they solves.
2. I strongly support legal immigration but abhor illegal immigration based on matters of economy and principle. The latter is because I believe a nation that cares nothing for it's own integrity is surrendering it's very identity and security, and the former because mass amounts of unchecked illegal immigrants produce a drain on the economy, and I believe immigrants should only be legally able to requisition the resources of a nation state.
3. I strongly support national defense and law and order, but I also believe both the military and police need strong oversight to prevent abuses. Otherwise, I view the existence of both as a public good so long as they do not limit any activity that is legal.
4. Censorship of expression, no matter how glorious or vile, should never be prohibited unless it provably incites crime. That means I don't care if someone is a believer in ANTIFA or Nazism, they can hold whatever beliefs they wish so long as don't commit a crime in the process, otherwise their rights to believe what they see fit deserve protection no matter what, with the added caveat any expression of said beliefs does not incite crime. That also means neither Nazis nor ANTIFA should visit violence on each other or anyone else, for any reasons save legally provable cases of self defense.
5. The right of personal conscience is sovereign, and no person should be forced to surrender any legal right to refuse to do anything like not render service to certain customers in private establishments based on moral principles, though that comes with the caveat they must show clear cause consistent with the principles they hold that passes muster with the law.
6. The law should be blind and deaf to anything save the crimes committed and the offense proscribed by law for said crimes. Race, creed, sex, or any other qualifier should NEVER allow any party to receive more or less punishment than another. By the same token, no advantage should be offered in the workforce, military, politics, socially, or any other field in which any party might wish to advance which prejudices anyone unfairly. Any limitations on employment, honors, or advancement should be based on merit and qualifications alone.
7. Racism and bigotry are wrong, and it doesn't matter against what or whom. Blacks deserve equal treatment as Whites, and Whites should not be prejudiced by Blacks, for example. Gender should never be dividing line of prejudice in any field save anything one sex can not obviously do as established by proven scientific fact (men cannot give birth, for example).
8. Finally, I personally tire of the us vs. them divide between any group, because when you get down to it, we're all mortals on the same mortal coil, and while our beliefs may differ, I'd rather we all try to find some form of accommodation or at least refrain from causing each other harm.
That all said, I'd like your takes.
That's also what's enjoyable with reading your posts... you may also be serious and either way it's a giggle.
