Thanks for clearing that up....here I thought I was a Republican. LOL!
I'm for giving ex-felons that serve their time full voting rights.
I'm for legalization of marijuana. Screw decriminalization. If everyone smoked, Jews would be dating Palestinians.
Social conservatives have long been trying to solipsize conservatism.
If you're not on the right side of the social issues of the day, you're not conservative, YET, they are willing to engage every bit of governmental force available to them to set their social agenda in place, and to ME, you cannot be a unrepentant grow-the-government statist and brand yourself a conservative.
The two are completely incompatible.
When I see social conservatives, I basically see proponents of religious statism, with progressives (their counterparts) pushing secular statism on to the rest of us.
The social conservative movement spends most of their time trying to stop people from doing things they want to do (same-sex marriage), while progressives spend
their time trying to force others to do things they don't want to do (baking cakes for same-sex weddings), and frankly, I wish that they'd both leave the rest of us alone and go duke it out somewhere on a deserted island.
Some of us want to discuss things like the impending financial crash, instead of arguing about who's buggering who.
Me?
You can imagine me sitting at home, doing bong hits with my same-sex married couple neighbors and cheering as we all watch the US level some Muslim terrorist-harboring shithole of a nation into whatever period of time it was that went on before the Bronze age on my nice, new Samsung 70" LED TV.
Yes... a libertarian.
Better yet, a Classical Liberal.