Some of my friends on the right and left seem too ideological. You can pick this up for when I post their responses are too predictable. So this is for my more ideological friends. I am a conservative, but not a radical ideological one. I ask my friends to check themselves to see if they are in group think. But I especially want to ask my more liberal and even leftist friends to check themselves for group think and always discrediting conservative writers which I quote. In checking myself, I have found 8 positions that are rejected by very conservative people. Here they are.
1. I believe in universal health care. I believe that insurance in this modern technological age has to also be regulated to offer basic and adequate coverage. I believe all must be in the system, and that vouchers should be given on a sliding scale to be able to purchase it. However, there would be competition by insurance companies, and hospital and doctor services with public records of quality, tort reform, and more. Competitive universal coverage. I know freedom purists think the government should not be involved at all, but political decisions is based on not a purist ideal, but the best that can be passed. I think this can.
2. I believe in income supplements for the poor but in a workfare orientation.
3. I believe that the day may come when robotics so replaces jobs that the wealth generated may need to be shared with those who lose jobs due to this. Right now we are not there, but futurists see the day coming when there simply are not jobs for all. But all can be required to serve to be given support.
4. I believe in legalising the non criminal illegal aliens in the United States (not citizenship for them but for their children). I believe, however, that going forward we need reasonable immigration control. I don’t believe that the illegals are only costing us money, but really do believe when they work they boost the economy and help with labor shortages.
5. I believe in estate taxes which is the closest thing to the Jubille redistribution of land in the Bible. They should not be onerous and should allow family business to survive. The funds should be used to train and for small business loans to give others a new start.
6. I believe in a strong urban policy for the poor underclass, including vouchers for private and charter schools that prove that they work, parent training, child care so the women work and more. I believe in very strong investment incentives in those area, but police protection needs to be such that it is save to invest.
7. I believe in a moderate progressive income tax. However, I do think that high tax states should not be helped by unfairly making their taxes deductible which makes lower tax states residents pay more to the fed.
8. I believe that we should look at drug legalisation to defund gangs and criminal. Then all this money that is being spent would be in massive anti-drug programs of all kinds just like programs against cigarettes. The fight against drugs should be massive, but in a different way.
I would challenge my liberal friends on Facebook to write their views where they agree with conservative. Let’s see if you are ideologues.
