Sean and Laurie have been busy calling me partisan again. So I promised to re-visit my "world map". It is a simple tool called a
Nolan diagram, and it may not be perfect however I think it is very useful.
Since I am for reducing the total cost of government (% of GDP) slightly, I am to the right of the vertical line. Whereas many of the Tea Party folks want to reduce that expenditure greatly. (ie privatized social security, medicare, etc) And the Liberals and Progressives want to increase that greatly. (ie universal healthcare, free college, etc) So yes I see myself just Right of Center compared to all the citizens in the USA.
In the vertical direction, I am for less government rules in many areas. If I were King I would legalize physician assisted suicide, let Religious people say no to LGBT people, legalize prostitution, subsidize abortions until 14 weeks and long acting reversible contraception so poor women would be a s free as wealthy women, etc. Why many Democrats and Republicans want to tell others how to live their lives is beyond me.
I am not going to make it as an Anarchist or Libertarian because I am somewhat against making more drugs legal, I want to deport people who are in the country illegally and I want to stop irresponsible and incapable baby mamas and daddas from screwing up more generations of Americans. I guess I see all 3 of them as simply enforcing our countries current laws and/or protecting innocent Americans. (ie unlucky kids)
I added the
PEW Polarization matrix to this version of the G2A Nolan Diagram. And it seems to indicate that I am just left of the median Republican, which also seems about correct.
All of this probably explains
why Liberals call me a Conservative... And Conservatives call a Liberal...
Finally, yes I usually vote Republican. I don't like a lot of what they support, however they at least talk about constraining government spending and control in our lives. Where as the Democrats only talk about more spending and government. I could happily vote for a Democratic politician if they were more fiscally moderate, unfortunately they do not seem to exist. However I will be looking into
Phillips and
Klobuchar before I vote.