Feeling politically adrift, lately

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I am also paleolibertarian.I voted for Trump in both elections.I love Ronald Reagan.I plan on maybe voting for Ted Cruz or Rand Paul if one of them runs for president again.I am impressed with Ron DeSantis but I dont know if he will get my primary vote if he runs.I am a MAGA type and a nationalist.I am isolationist.I dont like Trump any more because he banned bump stocks.

AFAIC rand paul is a sociopath who goaded his next door neighbor into a fight [the neighbor put the bastard in the hospital] by repeatedly dumping his trash onto the neighbor's lot.

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/12/17453976/ ... e-of-brush

what would YOU do if somebody kept piling trash systematically just over the properly line on your side?

Calvin Coolidge was pretty good during the Boston police strike of 1919 (before his presidency). Otherwise, he was pretty much a laissez-faire president. His hands-off approach could have led to the Depression.

He was a taciturn sort. When somebody placed a bet as to whether one could get Coolidge to say three words, Calvin answered, "You lose."

some think the perfect gov't never lifts a finger to help its citizens.

That was pretty much the Coolidge Way.

Herbert Hoover happened to have been a great humanitarian----but a very poor president, for some reason.

I've seen people explain a lot of political orientation with Big Five / OCEAN / five-factor personality model and it seems to make sense that it would be this way because your politics have a lot to do with what you prioritize.

In my own life with politics the things that get prioritized:

1) Playable economic games - ie. enough order in the systems and institutions to actually be able to engage in the world in a meritocratic fashion.

2) Things that attack / undermine / derange institutions typically rub me the wrong way as well as anything that damages going concern for things like liberal democracy (far left / far right populism for example).


In that context I find myself probably being centrist as well, or if conservative a very Burkeian one. I have some issues that I drift right of center on (supporting small business, Chesterton's fence issues, etc.). Similarly I have issues where I might be considered to drift left of center such as being for legalization of most recreational drugs within reason (maybe something like CCW type education and permitting for use for the more challenging ones) as well as considerations for how we manage poverty in a way where there's upward convection and mobility rather than 'winner take all'. Ideas like circular and closed-loop economies and sound energy and environmental policy is also one that I have a lot of concerns for being that I'm staying on top of those issues and I'd agree with Nate Hagans that it sounds like many modern economists are asleep at the wheel on the costs of both environmental degradation and depleting resources. There's also the issue of free speech, I might not be an absolutist but as close to that as manageable without empowering mob violence or doxing and I'm also deeply concerned with the ways in which we seem to be throwing meritocracy out the window or even in some sectors almost going to war with the concept of competence itself which IMHO is socially and economically suicidal but it seems like it's a pathology of the middle-management class which has been choking industry and academia increasingly these days.