Which way do you lean politically and why?

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I've stopped using the left-right dichotomy as well. It forces us to take sides and divides us to no end, as if we weren't polarized enough.

My economic views focus on investment on "forgotten" parts of the country and "forgotten" industries. In other words, it's about breathing new life into places like Detroit and Appalachia, that had depended exclusively on one industry for so long. In the fossil-fuel-dependent states, it would involve similar incentives for installing wind farms and solar panels (i.e. paying royalties for installing wind farms and solar panels, rather than for drilling for oil/gas).

Education would involve discouraging "easy As", but rather, emphasize real-world skills and study habits for the world beyond graduation.

Energy: Eventually, all-renewables, but also realizing that a plan would have to be "big tent" in the short term.

Social issues:
Abortion: keep existing laws, but make the Hyde Amendment permanent, rather than having to be renewed every now and then.

LGBT: Existing laws, adoption rights, no bathroom laws (they can't even be enforced anyway). However, stating that homosexuality is a sin in a church/mosque sermon should not be considered hate speech.

Immigration: No walls, no bans, but the screening process needs to be seriously revamped.

Foreign Policy: Diplomacy is the preferred option, but I believe in being hawkish if we need to be. Two-state Palestine solution, referenda for Tibet and Western Sahara, Two-China policy. Seriously push nations like Saudi Arabia and Iran on expanding human rights.

I took one of those damned pop up quizzes on facebuch while I lying with strep throat last week. The results of that quiz describes me as a theocratic socialist. I'm more of a theocratic authoritarian dictator, especially in the foul mood I've been in lately.

Ouch! I hope you're feeling better.

Collapse, not exactly, but Rome didn't fall, it faded, and we may be dimming as well. Though I believe this is due to over consumption of shallow popular media (Kardashians) over deeper intellectual investment, the political polarization of our country, and misplaced economic priorities.

My vision for a strong country is one where people don't let their political differences override their camaraderie with their fellow countrymen. For example, currently, Californians are pretty loathed for no reason other than the perceptions people have of California politics and culture. But in my ideal country, people would have no such sentiments against those in other states and would respect that different states have different needs as far as policies go. For example, some states need policies that favor jobs over the environment, while other states need policies that favor the environment over jobs. In my ideal country, people would be willing to pay a little more for American made items, and there would be more loyalty between employers and employees, as there once was. The stability of the American economy, a large middle class, and a clean, healthy, educated populace would be everyone's priority, and we would invest heavily in keeping America on the cutting edge of technology by generously increasing funding for STEM fields and decreasing funding for liberal arts (though not obliterating it).

Maybe this is too Utopian of a vision?

Decentralization and more direct democracy I definitely think is more preferable, the states use to be a lot more powerful before the Civil War. I've posted quite a few times how I think the 17th amendment should be repealed to help return power to the states, there's no benefit to having popularly elected senators and the house already is supposed to represent that people. The Senate as it is now is a super congress with disproportionate representation. It's purpose now mainly to gum up the works and be a gatekeeper for lobbyist interests.

Rome only faded politically, and not until 1453 in the Byzantine part.

As a paramount influence on many things in the "West," Rome (and Greece) remains very much alive.

It's sad really. With the rise of A.I. I lean left for income support for the unemployed, and I lean left on social issues such as LGBTQ and marijuana legalization. However: as an idealist, I would love to return to the days of conservative politics in Canada.

I am now all over the map in my political views, so severely that I honestly cannot align myself with any one party or even one general ideology or compass direction (left, right, middle etc).

My views, opinions, and wishes for society now look like a checkerboard of every color not just black and white.

I hold some views from the far left, the middle left, the middle, the near right and some would even accuse the far right but I happen to disagree with that assessment.

Suffice to say, I have so many layers to my personal views now, that it's actually severely isolating.

I'm completely alone because I am "mixed and matched" with everything and nothing, with various people and nobody.

I have extremely liberal friends to whom I cannot speak anymore about certain aspects politically because in those handful of aspects they severely disagree with me and I cannot agree with their stance.

Yet when I speak with someone who holds THOSE same views as mine, I run into loathing that person's OTHER views on other things.

I can't win and I have nobody who is similar to me. I feel like an unusually multi-faceted case in sea of black-and-white thinkers in my country. My country feels viciously divided now and I gather that people have even broken up friendships and marriages over some issues. I even let go of a client because I don't think either of us could stand each other any more and it was about political turn of events. But I have a mix of opinions on many issues and now if people didn't get me before, in general, now they REALLY don't get me.