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Give me a political philosophy. Take my social, economic, and political views and point me in the direction of who best fits them. I want to be labelled dammit, this being an individual is too much work.
Short Term Beliefs
There is as much logic to have trade barriers between countries as there is to have trade barriers between neighbouring towns. Trade should be free.
In keeping with the above belief, why restrict movement from, say Turkey to England any more than you restrict movement from Wales to England? Free movement of trade and capital has to be accompianed by free movement of labour.
Central banks should be independent from government and their decision making processes as transparent as the air.
Governments should be elected by a fair and just voting system. Power should be decentralised to the nearest most logical level (which may on occassion mean moving power up from national governments to, say, the European or UN level).
Companies should be run on ethical guidelines and pay their employees a livable wage. Corporate subsidies should be suspended and industries deregulated. Exceptions include healthcare and education, which should be free to use, and public ownership of a broadcaster that's objective and not beholden to corporate or government interests (have I mentioned I love C4 and the BBC?)
Pollution should be taxed. Heavily. Renewable sources of energy should be given priority. Organic farming good, sensible GM farming good. The two should be combined for maximum effectiveness.
Science good. R&D shouldn't be based on profit motive or military applications but the sheer discovery. I want to see the culture of science, free sharing of information and peer review, codified into law. Copyrights should be short term protections and we're going to honestly have a discussion if current copyright concepts concerning media are meaningful any longer.
There should be an independent commission that decides on the pay of politicians. I'm tired of seeing MP's vote for their own pay increases.
Long Term Beliefs
Workers should own and operate their businesses in co-operatives. Government should become more responsive to the wishes of its electorate via the ability for recall and average wages. Government should withdraw, letting the worker owned coops and other voluntary/local organisations run things.
Colonise Mars. And the Moon. And the asteroid belt.
GM engineering of human germ lines acceptable for disease elimination.
Nanotechnology good. The Grey Goo luddites can stuff it.
Nanotechnology may be necessary for my utopian dream of humanity: society run by voluntary, cooperative organisations with people encouraged to explore their individuality with the only law being the Golden One. Maybe even a phasing out of the money economy in exchange for a reputation economy once nanotech makes concepts like poverty, want, and need irrevelant.
Give me a political philosophy. Take my social, economic, and political views and point me in the direction of who best fits them. I want to be labelled dammit, this being an individual is too much work.
Short Term Beliefs
There is as much logic to have trade barriers between countries as there is to have trade barriers between neighbouring towns. Trade should be free.
In keeping with the above belief, why restrict movement from, say Turkey to England any more than you restrict movement from Wales to England? Free movement of trade and capital has to be accompianed by free movement of labour.
Central banks should be independent from government and their decision making processes as transparent as the air.
Governments should be elected by a fair and just voting system. Power should be decentralised to the nearest most logical level (which may on occassion mean moving power up from national governments to, say, the European or UN level).
Companies should be run on ethical guidelines and pay their employees a livable wage. Corporate subsidies should be suspended and industries deregulated. Exceptions include healthcare and education, which should be free to use, and public ownership of a broadcaster that's objective and not beholden to corporate or government interests (have I mentioned I love C4 and the BBC?
)Pollution should be taxed. Heavily. Renewable sources of energy should be given priority. Organic farming good, sensible GM farming good. The two should be combined for maximum effectiveness.
Science good. R&D shouldn't be based on profit motive or military applications but the sheer discovery. I want to see the culture of science, free sharing of information and peer review, codified into law. Copyrights should be short term protections and we're going to honestly have a discussion if current copyright concepts concerning media are meaningful any longer.
There should be an independent commission that decides on the pay of politicians. I'm tired of seeing MP's vote for their own pay increases.
Long Term Beliefs
Workers should own and operate their businesses in co-operatives. Government should become more responsive to the wishes of its electorate via the ability for recall and average wages. Government should withdraw, letting the worker owned coops and other voluntary/local organisations run things.
Colonise Mars. And the Moon. And the asteroid belt.
GM engineering of human germ lines acceptable for disease elimination.
Nanotechnology good. The Grey Goo luddites can stuff it.
Nanotechnology may be necessary for my utopian dream of humanity: society run by voluntary, cooperative organisations with people encouraged to explore their individuality with the only law being the Golden One. Maybe even a phasing out of the money economy in exchange for a reputation economy once nanotech makes concepts like poverty, want, and need irrevelant.
I love that line.
It rather scared me, but it's good. At least I know I'm not the only one who is like that politically 
As for future values, I think we differ a bit there, but not by that much.
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