A person, an ultra-progressive liberal I don’t particularly care for named Lester once told me that I could not be “middle-of-the-road” minded (able to see both liberal and conservative truths) when it comes to politics. I had to be either conservative, or liberal in my opinions and beliefs. That it was impossible to see both sides of the equation. This man has a BS in psychology and sometimes tries (successfully) to get in my head. I stated my beliefs to him once and he said I was full of crap. We nearly went to blows over this. He was completely incapable of seeing anything except his progressive ideology. Every book he ever wanted me to read was written by a liberal progressive. His college text books were also written by liberals. This divorced man owns no conservative literature or writings of any kind that I know of. He, in fact, is frightened of the conservative idea. This fear manifests itself so bad with him that he seems to think he can catch an ideological disease of some sort from listening to or reading conservative thought. He is so stubborn that he is an ideological dead weight to truly open minded problem solvers. He might achieve a balanced ideological equation if he entertained some conservative thought.
I’m what I like to call a common-sense, middle-of-the-road Libertarian with educated views about liberal-progressiveness and also conservatism. I sometimes listen to conservative radio shows. The talk show hosts nearly always eventually become pompous, or contradict previously stated opinions revealing their servitude to their employer (advertising). This allows me to see who they really are. I also listen to liberal media and liken them to cart horses with horse blinders on. They are ready and willing to pull the cart that is hitched to them as long as they get a feedbag of oats slapped on them occasionally (I’ll vote for you as long as I get free stuff attitude).
Me, I’m a straight shooter, and I don’t compromise my core-principals to anyone. I served 20 years in the service of my country. I took-in college over 20 years and never was once less than a 3.8 GPA. I don’t have a degree, know how many credits I have, or care, but I have received education in electronics, computer science, history, mathematics, engineering, literature, foreign studies, and military strategy. I’ve been a painter, radiation worker, crane operator, sea-going sailor, explosives worker, journeyman rigger, and supervisor. I’ve spent substantial time (11 years) in over 14 East and West Asian countries. I deployed 14 times to foreign countries. I’ve endured war, and also embraced humanitarian service to others less fortunate than I. I’m a Spiritual being and have faith in a Supreme Benevolent Trinity I call God. I am inter-racially married to the same beautiful woman for over 41 years. I retired from the service and immediately began a second career in manufacturing. We saved, and invested wisely. I retired from manufacturing after 23 years. My wife retired from her senior living healthcare job after 24 years, and now we’re ready for the next phase of our lives,… service work for our community and family. My Libertarian ideologies are as follows:
I believe in protecting my own with deadly weapons like guns because when seconds count – police are only minutes away. My God’s okay with me protecting my family and myself by killing (but not murdering). Someone told me once that they carry a gun because they can’t carry a cop.
I believe one should prove they can vote with a photo I.D. because a photo I.D. is also required to get government aid and nobody seems to have a problem with having one for that.
I believe the parents of children should teach them about their God, and give them their moral compass. Reading, writing, mathematics, the sciences, unbiased literature, and unbiased history are what our education system should concentrate on. Teachers are educators, not social workers. They should stick to educating or find other work.
I believe everyone should serve at least two years in the military or Peace Corps. We call it “service” for a reason and service cultivates ones character in the formative years of adulthood.
I believe a person can marry any person they choose but they fall under the same rules as the rest of us, no special treatment. Their financial liabilities should be the same weather divorced or deceased. I don’t believe in special interest groups or lobbyists.
I don’t believe in being the world police and believe we should mind our own damn business. I don’t like people telling us what to do or how to live and we shouldn’t be telling them either. Most modern wars are fought about energy resources, I would exploit our own vast energy resources and screw what the other free-loading nations want or think about us. I would pursue energy science to the highest degree because not all natural resources are renewable.
I would restrict, and greatly limit the amount of foreign aid we give to our trusted allies. I would stop giving aid to foreign nations that are not our allies because they badmouth us, and have proven their unworthiness to receive it. Every country on this planet owes us for the many times we pulled their asses out of hell except China (even though we delivered aid to China during WW2). Since China has manipulated the Chinese currencies in their favor for years putting us in the hole we should do the same to them to pay them off by charging them excessive amounts for the raw resources they need from us. At the same time we should nationalize all natural resources until our deficit is balanced to zero. This would be an incentive for the wealthy corporate natural resource market to get us back on track. Then only American entities should own natural resources here, not foreign entities. We should also only allow U.S. Citizens to own real estate in the U.S. because we aren’t for sale.
My wife is an immigrant. It cost us in excess of $5,000 in 1982 (almost our annual wage) to complete the process. It was not cheap on our meager income but it was legal. Now she legally works, resides, and pays taxes into our system. She has paid into Social Security for over two decades, and only now did they tell her that she must be a US citizen to collect benefits while living overseas. Our government has been corrupted my foreign lobbyists. President Biden is, and always has been beholden to China. He is the most corrupt president we have ever had. All of his children, and wife just as corrupt. The FBI, and other government institutions are corrupt as well, allowing his crimes to go uninvestigated. Illegal immigrants pay nothing into our system yet legally take from it. This pisses my wife off. She said we should go to their homes and start living there, raiding their refrigerator, and eating their food regardless of whether they like it or not (cute, but not realistic). I say firstly, enforce border control with deadly force, and then place current illegal immigrants in indentured servitude (road crews, and other much needed infrastructure services for 25% over minimum wage) until they have paid into the system for 10 years or more depending on whether they have dependents with them or not. Then they can be a citizen if they choose, or reside here in perpetuity with a permanent resident status and SSN. No free ride. Immigrants following the law would not have to do this. My great, great grandfather had to fight for the Union Army as an immigrant in order to be a citizen here. Again, we should give no free ride to illegal immigrants.
The president should NEVER have “Executive Order” authority and be able to bypass our judicial and legislative branches of government. Congress and The Supreme Court are there for a reason. It’s so we do not end up with a monarchy, or a dictator capable of plunging us into destruction. You want something Mr. President? Ask for it politely and intelligently. Make your case to the Congress Mr. President. They’ll review it and get back to you.
Life begins at conception. I believe nobody has the right to end life except our Creator and Supreme Being. Infants can’t litigate for themselves, so induced death should not be part of being born. We should litigate for them and for the old. We should be able to have our diapers changed when we’re babies and when we’re old, and I look forward to it. If a woman aborts a baby then she should be held accountable. Not by us, but by her Creator. Our taxes should never pay for it because taxpayers may be morally opposed to it. I can’t help anyone if I’m too busy judging them.
I don’t believe in letting humans starve to death. I’ve seen it in other countries and it’s not pretty or humane. We should help our own impoverished first, then others where we can. In all cases we should “teach them how to fish” instead of just giving them a fish. We should not restrict charitable work with nonsensical laws posing as protections to the impoverished. Nothing wrong with food that is out-of-date but not spoiled,… I occasionally eat it myself and I’ve never gotten sick from it.
LGBTQ+ people should never have ANY right, or privilege over and above anyone else. You want to act like a pervert? Expect to be treated as one. You want to act obscene? Expect to be treated obscenely. You want to commit ANY violence? Expect violence to be committed on you. You want to threaten children and parents with puberty extortion, and cultist LGBTQ+ brainwashing in our schools, public libraries, and tax payer paid venues? Expect parents or others to terminate your life. In short, you are not special,… your a queer. Your ideology is queer, you have no moral compass worthy of mentioning. You have the main stream media and entertainment industry in your pockets. Your biggest problem is you. You just can’t be happy with the general LGBTQ+ acceptance the majority has given you. You want special rights and privileges above others. A day is coming when you will seek but not find any place you can to hide from the violent retribution that is coming to you.
Yes, Lester, I am “middle-of-the-road” minded when it comes to politics because I’ve seen the real world in its good and bad detail, and we are rapidly becoming like them. We are becoming a “One World Government” or “New World Order” if you will. People request our aid, and flock to our borders because we are NOT like their countries. They must assimilate into our peoples, we don’t assimilate to them. This has been going on since our independence in 1776. Last, but not least I’m a patriot in the highest degree, and I honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. I say “Semper Fortis” to all my brothers and sisters in the service. What am I? I am 5th generation America, and there are a lot more like me. So to the ultra-liberal’s I’m giving them the middle finger and I say,… kiss my ass you little pussies. You should all grow long ponytails so that someone can help you pull your liberal heads out of your asses!