I'm not conservative and think republicans 10+ years ago were wrong just like democrats after Clinton are wrong. I don't want government playing a major role in my life. I dont need them to "protect" my children or grandchildren. That was my job as a parent, not the school, government, the lady down the street, or the preacher at the church.

I'm way more liberal than most on this board and until after Clinton didn't have a problem with the welfare programs. The laws in place were doing a good enough job to keep the cheating down for the most part to 1%. For a government program that's great. Hardly anyone getting a form of "welfare" is not also working. So I don't see the problem as some of you do.

I want the government out of of the prison system over what I want to put into my body. There's more than enough laws on the book to punish a person if their action affects someone else.

For the most part I believe unions were needed and played a important role. They still do today and in a consumer based economy you would not see the huge gap if everyone had a union. If there is no balance in profit vs labor.....

you still have the high prices but lower wages

To make my point has the price of the cars/trucks went down or even held steady with steady growth by moving the making of them to low wage countries? No they haven't the prices rose higher than when American made with union wages. The only difference is banks are now lending to more and more people that can't afford to make the payments.

You can do that across the board other than items that are outpacing the price with new tech. Otherwise what in the last 20 years have become throw away once tech has made something better in a short period of time.

I dont care if you are gay, straight, or go both ways and same goes for trans. The government should not be making special laws to dictate any of those. More than enough laws to cover "hate crimes". If everyone was in a union you wouldn't need government to make work place laws.

If someone says the f word or anything else or two guys kiss, or a number of things. It's my job as a parent to explain to my children MY VALUES and to install those into my child and then step aside or never force my values on to my adult children. I dont need the government to do my job.

My views on defense is now in line with Trumps view and what use to be democrats views. I believe we can cut spending enough in this area and still be as safe s we are when we spent 25% more.

So I believe I'm a lot more liberal than a lot on this board