A declaration
All the political parties out there suck. Seriously, the Libertarians want to close down public schools. The Socialist party is really full of commies. The Constitutionalists want to ram their religion down my (and your) throat. The Personal Choice party keeps me from right clicking on their website, so I can't open in tabs to find out the information they present to me. (Actually they lack a coherent foreign policy, turning off JavaScript gets rid of the right click block.) As for the Green party... well, I suppose /somebody/ has to cover the liberal position, but I want nothing to do with it.
At any rate, I have decided to form my own political party. I am now a Pragmatic Minimalist. As the only member of the party, this theoretically gives me an extraordinary amount of power. For one, I get to decide all the policies, and since any primaries that occur only involve my vote, I get to decide who runs on the ticket with that name as well.
This is a rather liberating feeling, and I highly recommend creating your own party (it's not like your vote was doing anything with the party you're in now).
In the meantime, I'm going to get out a soapbox and declare the broader beliefs and principles of the political party.
We are fiscally moderate, and both socially and politically permissive. This means a pragmatic (hence the name) view torwards how money should be spent, and a very open view torwards how people think feel and act, so long as their actions don't infringe upon the rights of others.
As far as the pragmatics go, while I believe that it is frequently better for government to let the people deal with their own problems, there are a number of cases where government interference creates a benefit for everybody involved.
I put forward commercial fishing restrictions as a primary example. If allowed to proceed unchecked, fishing fleets can rapidly deplete the fish in an area, while this produces a short term boon to the fishermen, there will eventually be too few fish remaining to produce a profit. However, with restrictions on fishing (the exact method varies greatly), the fish stocks will remain at a constant level, or even increase in previously unrestricted areas. Thus the restrictions benefit both fishermen (who get to keep their jobs), corporations (who get to continue exploiting the resources), and individuals (who get to keep eating fish).
The minimalist portion of the party name comes from the social and political permissiveness. This means that people have a right to vote, think, feel, and act in any manner which they desire, curbed only by the need to continue to allow others to act in the same manner, the capacity of the individual to consent, and the ability of the individual to prevent a burden to society. (It's one thing to be a drunk, it's another thing to be a drunk on welfare.)
I will have more on the goals and positions of the party as time goes on. For the moment though, I encourage you to think about what your own political views really are, as opposed to what you think they are. This site may be rather enlightening to that end.
At any rate, I have decided to form my own political party. I am now a Pragmatic Minimalist. As the only member of the party, this theoretically gives me an extraordinary amount of power. For one, I get to decide all the policies, and since any primaries that occur only involve my vote, I get to decide who runs on the ticket with that name as well.
This is a rather liberating feeling, and I highly recommend creating your own party (it's not like your vote was doing anything with the party you're in now).
In the meantime, I'm going to get out a soapbox and declare the broader beliefs and principles of the political party.
We are fiscally moderate, and both socially and politically permissive. This means a pragmatic (hence the name) view torwards how money should be spent, and a very open view torwards how people think feel and act, so long as their actions don't infringe upon the rights of others.
As far as the pragmatics go, while I believe that it is frequently better for government to let the people deal with their own problems, there are a number of cases where government interference creates a benefit for everybody involved.
I put forward commercial fishing restrictions as a primary example. If allowed to proceed unchecked, fishing fleets can rapidly deplete the fish in an area, while this produces a short term boon to the fishermen, there will eventually be too few fish remaining to produce a profit. However, with restrictions on fishing (the exact method varies greatly), the fish stocks will remain at a constant level, or even increase in previously unrestricted areas. Thus the restrictions benefit both fishermen (who get to keep their jobs), corporations (who get to continue exploiting the resources), and individuals (who get to keep eating fish).
The minimalist portion of the party name comes from the social and political permissiveness. This means that people have a right to vote, think, feel, and act in any manner which they desire, curbed only by the need to continue to allow others to act in the same manner, the capacity of the individual to consent, and the ability of the individual to prevent a burden to society. (It's one thing to be a drunk, it's another thing to be a drunk on welfare.)
I will have more on the goals and positions of the party as time goes on. For the moment though, I encourage you to think about what your own political views really are, as opposed to what you think they are. This site may be rather enlightening to that end.
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