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xigoi OP ,
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Some things I like from the left:

  • The general idea of changing things that are bad instead of sticking to traditions
  • Gay marriage and other rights
  • More efficient and affordable healthcare
  • Abortion (though ideally I'd find it fair if “paper abortion” was also a thing)
  • FOSS (though most people don't have a strong opinion on that)
  • Public transportation

Some things I like from the right:

  • General cautiousness about the negative effects of new policies (for example, schools catering to problematic students at the expense of the other students)
  • Trying to minimize unnecessary government intervention
  • Support of free speech (used to be a leftist thing, seems to depend on who is being censored more)
  • Cautiousness about illegal immigration
  • Banning of harmful addictive drugs

And what I don't like about either:

  • Takes on gender/race equality (left tries to achieve it but has a different idea of what equality looks like, right seems content with inequality)
  • Voter fraud prevention (right wants the requirement of a driving license or something, left wants no verification at all; I like the normal system of requiring an identity card that every citizen gets for free from the government)

Based on these, I'd consider myself centrist or maybe a bit left-leaning, but the far left would consider me a Nazi and the far right would consider me a communist or something.

Also note that I'm not from the USA and I see USA politics through the lens of what I know to work and not work in my country.

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