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Now I don't like Republicans or Democrats.

I believe they're both greedy nasty evil control freaks. With my views and beliefs. I align with right libertarian views and I think that's far that to. But everything needs to have a label or a number these days

My are my 4 biggest views

Strict constitutionalism: Emphasis on government limited to enumerated powers.

Minimal government: Only core functions like for defense, courts, contract enforcement

Strong property rights: Opposition to eminent domain and government seizure of private land.

Support for returning land to Indigenous peoples

If you don't like that, tough cookies
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pdockal · 56-60, M
One problem with returning land to indigenous people

The whole continent was theirs before us
pdockal · 56-60, M
@HumanEarth

& go where ?
HumanEarth · F
Taco Bell I guess
pdockal · 56-60, M
@HumanEarth

Can't it's on indigenous land
ArishMell · 70-79, M
The judiciary should not be part of government, but independant of it. The Government's duty should be only to make, amend or repeal laws including where necessary at constutional level, and via the country's proper parliamentary system; not to operate their execution. Otherwise it risks turning the Courts of Law into a mere party-political tool.

Surely contract enforcement is a legal matter, not political?

What of other basic State functions like health, education, welfare, providing roads and railways, the Diplomatic Service, participating in the international bodies and treaties to which most nations are now members or signatories ?

Trying to return any land to its indigenous people in any nation formed by colonists opens a gigantic can of worms; not least that it would necessitate what you do not want: wholesale compulsory seizure by the government of private land.
pdockal · 56-60, M
@ArishMell

It's part of the government so one branch out the most powerful however Congress is getting there
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HumanEarth · F
Sad truth
Richard65 · M
Perhaps it's the system itself which is corrupt, created over generations by prominent people who wished to rig the game to benefit them and to maintain power in their hands. I remember Obama saying he was surprised by how limited the system allowed him to be, despite being president of the world's only superpower. It's the same here in the UK, where, except for a few allowances, the laws and the financial and political structures are designed in order to maintain the status quo as much as possible, irrelevant of who is actually in charge. As The Who sang, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..."
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Richard65 The UK's constitution, which developed over centuries, is not designed to maintain a status quo for the few, but to guard the State (i.e. the land and its citizens and assets) from that, by being above party-politics.
Richard65 · M
@ArishMell that's my point. It's above party politics, so the power structure is maintained, as it has been for centuries. But not necessarily for the benefit of its populace. That's effectively the status quo. And you say it's not designed to maintain that status quo for the few. Really? That's your honest opinion? You haven't been paying enough attention.

 
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