Here are your answers compared to this voter’s answers.
Social › LGBT Adoption Rights
L>L Personal answerYes |
Social › Abortion
L>L Personal answerPro-choice, and providing birth control, sex education, and more social services will help reduce the number of abortions |
Social › Gay Marriage
L>L Personal answerYes |
the Economy › Equal Pay
L>L Personal answerYes, and businesses should be required to publish their salary ranges for each position |
Domestic Policy › Gun Control
L>L Personal answerYes, require strict background checks, psychological testing, and training |
Crime › Police Body Cameras
L>L Personal answerYes, this will protect the safety and rights of police officers and citizens |
Healthcare › Drug Price Regulation
L>L Personal answerYes, and we should socialize medicine and healthcare |
Healthcare › Pre-Existing Conditions
L>L Personal answerNo, it is immoral to deny health insurance to people with pre-existing conditions |
Social › Gun Buyback
L>L Personal answerYes, and we should also demilitarize local police departments |
Social › Gender Identity
L>L Personal answerYes, and the government should do more to protect minorities from discrimination |
Healthcare › Mental Health
L>L Personal answerYes, our mental healthcare system needs more funding to provide a higher quality of care and services |
Social › Religious Freedom Act
L>L Personal answerNo, all customers deserve to be treated equally |
Social › Transgender Athletes
L>L Personal answerYes |
Immigration › Muslim Immigrant Ban
L>L Personal answerNo, banning immigrants based on their religion is unconstitutional |
Social › Planned Parenthood Funding
L>L Personal answerYes, their services reach far beyond abortions and can save many lives through cancer screening, prenatal services, and adoption referrals |
the Economy › Minimum Wage
L>L Personal answerYes, make it a living wage, and supplement with universal basic income |
Domestic Policy › Armed Teachers
L>L Personal answerNo! And no guns or other lethal weapons should be allowed on school property for any reason. |
the Environment › Climate Change
L>L Personal answerYes |
the Economy › Paid Sick Leave
L>L Personal answerYes, but the federal government should sponsor this program instead of businesses |
Domestic Policy › Drug Policy
L>L Personal answerYes, and retroactively reduce sentences for those already serving time |
Foreign Policy › Iran
L>L Personal answerNo, the U.S. should encourage Iran to disarm through diplomatic channels |
Domestic Policy › Term Limits
L>L Personal answerNo, but we should have a means for removing officials who are clearly non compise mentis |
the Economy › Taxes
L>L Personal answerReform to a flat tax an close all loopholes that keep the wealthy from paying taxes. |
Foreign Policy › Mandatory Military Service
L>L Personal answerYes but with government service as the focus and non-military roles available to conscientious objectors. |
Domestic Policy › Muslim Surveillance
L>L Personal answerNo, this decision should be based on crime rates instead of race or religion |
Social › Racial Sensitivity Training
L>L Personal answerYes, and also include LGBTQ+ topics |
Elections › Foreign Lobbying
L>L Personal answerNo, foreign interests should not be able to buy the influence of our politicians |
Education › Critical Race Theory in K-12 Education
L>L Personal answerYes, and also add Intersectionality and the 1619 Project to the curriculum |
Immigration › Immigration
L>L Personal answerYes, if they were born here |
Education › Free College for All
L>L Personal answerYes |
Education › Student Loans
L>L Personal answerYes, and increase government funding so every student receives a free college education |
Social › Death Penalty
L>L Personal answerNo, spending life in prison is a harsher sentence |
Immigration › Deporting Criminal Immigrants
L>L Personal answerYes, as long as it is safe for them to return to their country |
Healthcare › Marijuana
L>L Personal answerYes. But: legalize with no restrictions to researchers for a period of 5 years first and highly subsidize excellent evidence based research into the effects and potential uses and treatments surrounding all illegal drugs to give ourselves, govt and citizens, evidenced based research to make informed decisions. |
Social › Confederate Flag
L>L Personal answerNo, and ban any public display of the flag |
Social › Government Mandates
L>L Personal answerNo, it should be covered like any other prescription |
Domestic Policy › No-Fly List Gun Control
L>L Personal answerYes, if the government considers you too dangerous to board a plane you should not be able to buy a gun |
Domestic Policy › Supreme Court Reform
L>L Personal answerAdd more seats, sure, but I think a better reform would be to enact a clause defining that a lack of clear mental health and onset of dementia should be reasonable reasons to recuse or remove any elected or appointed government official. It should be exercised in a way that, as much as possible, allows people to maintain dignity while still protecting the public interest. |
Domestic Policy › NSA Domestic Surveillance
L>L Personal answerNo, only with a warrant showing probable cause of criminal activity |
Immigration › Illegal Immigrant Detainment
L>L Personal answerNo, only if they are convicted of a violent crime |
Social › Women in Combat
L>L Personal answerYes, preventing women from serving in combat roles is discriminatory |
Science › Mandatory Vaccinations
L>L Personal answerYes, they are essential to protecting other children who are too young to be vaccinated |
Healthcare › Medicaid
L>L Personal answerYes, but I prefer switching to a single payer healthcare system |
Domestic Policy › Social Media Regulation
L>L Personal answerYes but Only in instances where it is clear the entity is a danger to the public trust and well being and after exhausting all efforts to get the social media organizations to police themselves for such content. |
Immigration › Border Security
L>L Personal answerNo, make it easier for immigrants to access temporary work visas |
Crime › Private Prisons
L>L Personal answerNo |
Crime › Qualified Immunity for Police
L>L Personal answerNo, and increase the personal liability for misconduct |
Social › Gender Workplace Diversity
L>L Personal answerYes, and the government should do more to require diversity in the workplace |
the Environment › Alternative Energy
L>L Personal answerYes, the government should support more sustainable energy technologies |
Immigration › Sanctuary Cities
L>L Personal answerYes |
Immigration › Immigration Healthcare
L>L Personal answerYes, and grant them citizenship |
Elections › Campaign Finance
L>L Personal answerYes, politicians should not be bought by wealthy donors |
Healthcare › Single-Payer Healthcare
L>L Personal answerYes, private companies should not be able to profit off of healthcare |
Immigration › Immigrant Laborers
L>L Personal answerYes, create a simple path to citizenship for immigrants with no criminal record |
the Environment › Alaska Wildlife Refuge
L>L Personal answerNo |
Elections › Voter Fraud
L>L Personal answerNo, and automatically register every citizen to vote when they turn 18 |
the Economy › Corporate Tax
L>L Personal answerMaintain the current rate |
Social › Safe Spaces
L>L Personal answerYes |
Domestic Policy › Patriot Act
L>L Personal answerNo, and pass strict laws prohibiting government surveillance without probable cause and a warrant |
the Economy › Government Spending
L>L Personal answerNo, cuts to public spending will negatively affect the economy |
Foreign Policy › Israel
L>L Personal answerWe should give equal support to Israel and Palestine. |
Elections › Minimum Voting Age
L>L Personal answerYes |
Foreign Policy › NATO
L>L Personal answerYes, but NATO should focus more on counter-terrorism strategies |
Immigration › Immigrant Assimilation
L>L Personal answerNo, it should not be required but it should be strongly encouraged for their protection and we should make it cheap and easy to do so, and continue to provide written material in their heart language and translation services in legal and medical settings particularly. |
Immigration › Border Wall
L>L Personal answerNo, and we should adopt an open border policy |
Domestic Policy › Net Neutrality
L>L Personal answerNo, this would allow them to remove competition, create artificial scarcity, and increase prices |
Healthcare › Medicaid Work Requirement
L>L Personal answerNo, your access to healthcare and life saving intervention should be in no way tied to your ability to work, this negatively disadvantages disabled people in severe ways. The value of a human life should never be measured by their ability to sustain labor or employment. |
Social › First Amendment
L>L Personal answerYes, but do not waste money removing existing references |
Domestic Policy › Gun Liability
L>L Personal answerYes, any business should be held liable if the primary use of its product is for illegal activity |
Crime › Defunding the Police
L>L Personal answerYes, replace police with unarmed community based responders for non-violent calls |
Social › Niqāb
L>L Personal answerYes, we should respect all cultural traditions |
Crime › Solitary Confinement for Juveniles
L>L Personal answerJuvenile offenders should be treated in a developmentally appropriate manner, not like small adults. Non-violent violations should not be subject to incarceration. We need to replace juvenile detention as a means of housing youth who need to be placed outside their own home for their or their family’s safety and well being. |
Crime › Mandatory minimum prison sentences
L>L Personal answerNo, and with some sort of checks in place to make sure that judicial discretion is not being abused in discriminating ways. |
Social › Euthanasia
L>L Personal answerNo, but they should be allowed to refuse artificial life support |
Immigration › Skilled Immigrants
L>L Personal answerIncrease |
Immigration › Citizenship Test
L>L Personal answerFor what purpose? This question is poorly worded. Historically tests like this have been slanted in racist ways and used to further the goals of institutional racism. While this information is important it needs to be insured that it’s being done fairly and with egalitarian goals in mind |
Elections › Right of Foreigners to Vote
L>L Personal answerNo, only legal citizens should be allowed to vote |
Domestic Policy › Affirmative Action
L>L Personal answerRegardless, we should create more social programs to address poverty |
Healthcare › Safe Haven
L>L Personal answerYes, drug abuse should be treated as a health issue, not a criminal issue |
Healthcare › Medicare Drug Prices
L>L Personal answerYes |
the Economy › Universal Basic Income
L>L Personal answerYes, everyone should receive an income to cover basic necessities including food and housing |
Domestic Policy › Flag Burning
L>L Personal answerNo, since it is a violation of free speech, the veneration for the flag is idolatrous at best, and BURNING IS AN APPROPRIATE MEANS OF DISPOSAL ACCORDING TO THE FLAG CODE!!!!!! |
the Economy › Welfare
L>L Personal answerFewer, current benefits do not provide enough support |
Crime › Demilitarize the Police
L>L Personal answerNo |
the Economy › Labor Unions
L>L Personal answerHelp |
the Economy › Economic Stimulus
L>L Personal answerYes, the government should intervene to boost a recovery |
the Economy › Welfare Drug Testing
L>L Personal answerNo, this is a waste of time and money |
the Environment › Dakota Access Pipeline
L>L Personal answerYes |
Elections › Campaign Finance
L>L Personal answerNo, but allow donations from unions and non-profits |
the Economy › Capital Gains Tax
L>L Personal answerYes, but only commercial real estate, not private personal housing. |
Immigration › In-State Tuition
L>L Personal answerYes, and they should also be eligible for financial assistance and scholarships |
Education › Common Core
L>L Personal answerYes, I support the concept but not the current implementation |
Healthcare › World Health Organization
L>L Personal answerYes, and increase the amount |
the Environment › Oil Drilling
L>L Personal answerNo |
Foreign Policy › United Nations
L>L Personal answerYes |
Foreign Policy › Afghanistan
L>L Personal answerOnly after aiding the afghan government in stabilizing the region. We should not be allowed to go in, kill people and break things and then leave them to clean up our mess with a power vacuum that allows terrorist organizations to flourish |
Elections › Candidate Transparency
L>L Personal answerYes, and require a public audit each year they are in office |
Healthcare › Obamacare
L>L Personal answerYes, but a mandatory single payer system would be even better |
the Environment › Fracking
L>L Personal answerNo, we should pursue more sustainable energy resources instead |
the Economy › Overtime Pay
L>L Personal answerYes, and all employees should be paid time-and-a-half for overtime hours regardless of their pay scale |
Elections › Lobbyists
L>L Personal answerYes, and make it a lifetime ban |
Domestic Policy › Eminent Domain
L>L Personal answerYes, as long as landowners are fairly compensated and the projects will benefit the community |
Elections › Electoral College
L>L Personal answerYes |
Crime › Collective Bargaining
L>L Personal answerThis is tough because I do support unions and collective bargaining and do not appreciate the precedent that would be set by cracking down on police unions, that said I believe that police unions are doing irreparable damage to the public safety and the public trust in police institutions by protecting the worst and propping up racist and unjust systems within the police system. |
Foreign Policy › Military Spending
L>L Personal answerNeither, I am satisfied with the current amount of spending |
the Environment › Animal Testing
L>L Personal answerYes, but not for cosmetics |
Science › Nuclear Energy
L>L Personal answerAs long as there is a clear plan for safety and the disposal of waste. Otherwise invest in alternate energy |
Crime › Drug Trafficking Penalties
L>L Personal answerNo, I do not believe in the death penalty |
Foreign Policy › Torture
L>L Personal answerNo, and we should strictly follow the laws of the Geneva Convention |
Foreign Policy › Foreign Aid
L>L Personal answerIncrease, but only for countries that have no human rights violations |
Elections › Criminal Politicians
L>L Personal answerYes, as long as it was not a felony, violent, financial, or sexual crime |
Healthcare › VA Privatization
L>L Personal answerLess, we should increase funding to improve the current system instead |
Foreign Policy › Drones
L>L Personal answerNo, only to gather intelligence, not to kill suspected terrorists |
Science › GMO Labels
L>L Personal answerNo, we have selectively bred crops for thousands of years and labeling just adds an unfounded stigma to the science |
Healthcare › Vaccine Passports
L>L Personal answerYes, but everyone should still wear a mask |
Crime › Prison Overcrowding
L>L Personal answerNon-violent crimes should not receive any prison time. Private for profit prisons should be illegal and shut down immediately. All sex crimes involving contact with another person should be classified as violent crimes. |
Education › Universal Pre-K
L>L Personal answerYes |
Transportation › Public Transportation
L>L Personal answerYes |
Education › Charter Schools
L>L Personal answerNo, we should focus on improving our public schools and increasing teacher wages instead |
Immigration › Dual Citizenship
L>L Personal answerYes |
the Economy › Estate Tax
L>L Personal answerI’m not set in my ideals here, but I’m interested in the concept of a flat tax |
Crime › Criminal Voting Rights
L>L Personal answerYes, every citizen deserves the right to vote |
the Environment › Plastic Product Ban
L>L Personal answerNo, increase consumer incentives to recycle these products instead |
National Security › Military Congressional Approval
L>L Personal answerNo, Congress should approve all military conflicts |
Foreign Policy › Terrorism
L>L Personal answerYes, just like U.S. citizens, terrorists should be given a fair trial in federal courts |
the Environment › Paris Climate Agreement
L>L Personal answerNo |
the Economy › Tech Monopolies
L>L Personal answerI think this would be better done in the food and media industries where everything is controlled by 6-7 companies. I believe these three companies are being unfairly targeted. Except Facebook, screw those guys. |
National Security › Foreign Assassination
L>L Personal answerNo |
Foreign Policy › NATO
L>L Personal answerYes, and refusing to defend other NATO countries sets a dangerous precedent for the balance of global power |
Science › Space Exploration
L>L Personal answerYes, and drastically increase NASA’s current budget |
the Economy › Domestic Jobs
L>L Personal answerI don’t know. |
the Economy › NAFTA
L>L Personal answerNo, but we should adopt a unilateral free trade policy |
Domestic Policy › Political Advertising on Social Media
L>L Personal answerI’d be okay with severe limits on all political advertising and penalties for advertising that contains blatant falsehoods. |
the Economy › Offshore Banking
L>L Personal answerYes, as long as offshore income is reported |
Foreign Policy › India Arms
L>L Personal answerNo, and we should not sell military weapons to any foreign country |
Domestic Policy › Edward Snowden
L>L Personal answerYes, he should be protected under the Whistleblower Protection Act |
Foreign Policy › NSA Surveillance
L>L Personal answerNo, spying on our allies severely damages our reputation abroad |
Foreign Policy › Cuba
L>L Personal answerYes and stop attempting to crush all socialist governments out of imperialism and greed. |
Foreign Policy › Jerusalem
L>L Personal answerNo, and foreign governments should not move their embassies there |
Education › School Truancy
L>L Personal answerYes |
the Environment › Corporate Subsidies
L>L Personal answerYes, as long as the tax revenue will eventually exceed the tax incentives |
Foreign Policy › F-35
L>L Personal answerNo |
Domestic Policy › Air Force One
L>L Personal answerI don’t know. It seems like the modernity and security of the presidents Flying Fortress office building should be maintained but for purposes of security and efficiency (particularly non-fossil fuel technology) not personal vanity. |
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You side slightly towards “security”, meaning you more often believe the government should do everything within its power to ensure the security of its citizens. This theme is most important to you.
You are a centrist on left wing and right wing issues. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on authoritarian and libertarian issues. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on democratic socialism and capitalism issues. This theme is more important to you.
You side slightly towards “nationalism”, meaning you more often support policies that prioritize the interests of our nation above others. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on politically incorrect and politically correct issues. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on unilateralism and multilateralism issues. This theme is more important to you.
You side slightly towards “religious”, meaning you more often support policies that reflect religious values and principles. This theme is more important to you.
You side moderately towards “protectionism”, meaning you believe globalization is detrimental to the safety, compensation, environment, and standard of living of workers. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You side slightly towards “deregulation”, meaning you more often believe that government regulation stifles innovation and economic prosperity. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on assimilation and multiculturalism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on pacifism and militarism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on traditional and progressive issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on isolationism and imperialism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on individualism and collectivism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You side slightly towards “decentralization”, meaning you more often believe that administrative power and decision making should be handled at the local level and serve the best interests of the local community. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on tender and tough issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on small government and big government issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on keynesian and laissez-faire issues. This theme is only less important to you.
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You are a centrist on meritocracy and democracy issues. This theme is only less important to you.
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