Bert Hart's Political Platform

First off, I don't believe in the two-party system. At all. So I think the answers "Republican" or "Democrat" are both out.

That said, I consider myself a neo-federalist libertarian antiterritorial pacifist-pragmatist.

Neo-Federalist: I believe the Constitution was written to be preserved, not reinterpreted as a "living document." That said, some revisionist claims are valid-- otherwise, we'd still have slavery. To balance these vying goals, there should be an understanding within our (U.S.) federal government that States are left to decide issues that do not interfere with basic human rights.

Libertarian: (somewhat). The Libertarian credo seems to be conservative on economic issues and liberal on moral issues. I live my life in a morally conservative way, but I believe in allowing people the freedom to choose those things for themselves. I suppose libertarianism, though not ideal, is the party I could most easily side with.

Anti-territorial: This is a word I had to basically make up to state the should-be-obvious: the more territorial you are, the worse off you'll be, in every single area of life/business/politics. I want to overhaul copyright law and lift trade embargoes with Cuba, among other things.

Pacifist-pragmatist: War is bad. I think the Vietnam war and the Iraq war show us that. I also think that sometimes (though not often), war is unavoidable and necessary, no matter how unjust and terrible it may be. I don't know how to resolve these two things in my mind, but it's important that I forget neither of them.

These are just the things on my mind right now; there's a lot more driving me than just that.

After taking the Political Compass test, I learned that I categorize myself as an economic moderate and a social libertarian. I could've just told you that myself, but it's nice to have a graph to go with it: