What i consider radical on each side, and where i stand:
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Climate Change:
Left: complete overhaul of fossil fuels, for a purely subsidized or government controlled implementation of solar, wind and hydroelectric power
Right: what? that shit isn't real.
ME: Nuclear energy wins out on the free market. move in that direction?
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Gun Control:
Left: Take them all, blanket gun ban
Right: Tanks orderable on amazon, along with high-grade weaponry and ammunition.
ME: Allow for a populous to be as armed as up to the point where they could rebel any case of military occupation (whether foreign or domestic)
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Immigration:
Left: Borders are a social construct, but not the kind that we like, the kind that we et pissed and are going to mace old people in the face about.
Right: When I order McDonald's they better understand me the first time
ME: Overhaul on immigration so that high-skilled laborers can get in faster, and that security checked and vetted refugees can get in (regardless of religion). Variable restrictions on other immigration, with quotas proportional to the current job growth, as to create neither a surplus nor a shortage.
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Freedom of Speech / Freedom of Press:
Left: it offends me and should be banned / is important part of society
Right: is important part of society / it offends me and should be banned
ME: offensiveness doesn't matter, it's all allowed except for inciting violence / libel and slander
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Healthcare:
Left: screw the cost, just raise taxes. fully socialized, here we come!
Right: what if we could make it so it's government regulated, expensive, AND poor people can't get it???
ME: taking money from others should be minimized as much as possible, and we need stronger community efforts for this. however, if a community wants to live in a socialized fashion: let them. but to solve the Macro problem of expensive healthcare: make drugs and medical equipment cheaper by removing costly regulation, and replace it with extreme liability laws for bad drugs.
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Military:
Left not during war: look at all these horrible human rights violations around us.
Left during war: we're terrible people and should feel ashamed.
Right not during war: hey guys, wanna start a war?
Right during war: now since we're at war... let me call my good friend Halliburton.
ME: We can't use the UN as a standard of what to do. they're weak. we need to stop paying so much for the national defense of countries who are in currently perpetual peace. Israel Ukraine, Japan and South Korea are the 4 main countries we should focus resources on.
Clearly the middle east has issues, many of which are our fault. The solution to this is not creating more problems. If we get attacked, we need precision strikes, but not drone-style genocide
For non-political action, don't forget the founders gave us the ability to create a letter of marque and reprisal, where nowadays we could allow private individuals within those countries to take action, which we would compensate them for. Complete public transparency on this issue, no exceptions.
Economic embargos and attacks are also extremely effective, but the only ally i'm truly comfortable behind is Israel, and even they aren't perfect, although Palestine's charter to destroy them isn't exactly deescalating that situation.
The South China Sea is a weird situation, where we have no vested claims, but are arbitrarily trying to stop China from pushing out the claims of smaller countries on these islands. This is as non-imperialist as we can get, and we're still being intrusive pricks. if only there were Nations, that were United, who could moderate this fairly... oh. damnit UN.
Once there was a hungry hungry Russia, and he ate up part of Ukraine near the Crimean River, BUT HE WAS STILL HUNGRY. Russia's claims to that part of Ukraine are somewhat legitimate. their method of throwing armed forces at the Ukrainians and killing many isn not a legitimate form of argumentation. If only there were Nations, that were United, who could moderate this fairly... oh. damnit U... TWICE NOW????
sidenote: we didn't invade Iraq for oil, we stayed in Iraq for too long because of oil.
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Anyways, that's where i see the FAR LEFT and FAR RIGHT. not the MAINSTREAM, but FAR sides of each ideology.
as to the proportion of Democrats that are leaning FAR LEFT and the proportions of Republicans that are leaning FAR RIGHT, i think it's more even, the millennial generation is much more far left, but recent polls show a Large conservative contingency among youths nowadays. youths are naturally more radical, but i'd need more specific polling to make a solid statement on that matter.
Also I'm eating chocolate ice cream right now.