Here are your answers compared to this voter’s answers.
Social › LGBT Adoption Rights
5>5 Personal answerYes, as long as they pass the same background checks as straight couples |
Social › Abortion
5>5 Personal answerFor myself, I am pro-life, but I do not think I or anyone else has the right to tell another woman (or couple) what to do in this situation. I think every woman should be able to make the informed decision of her choice. |
Social › Gay Marriage
5>5 Personal answerYes |
the Economy › Equal Pay
5>5 Personal answerI think if we add in riders that take into account other variables such as education, experience & tenure, then yes, a woman who has the same (or very similar) education, experience &/or tenure as a man should make the same salary he does. |
Domestic Policy › Gun Control
5>5 Personal answerThere are already plenty of gun laws on the books. What we need is more enforcement of what we have, NOT more gun laws. |
Crime › Police Body Cameras
5>5 Personal answerYes, this will protect the safety and rights of police officers and citizens |
Social › Gender Identity
5>5 Personal answerIf current legislation feels the need to specify what identities it is protecting, then yes, gender identity should also be specified. |
Social › Religious Freedom Act
5>5 Personal answerOnly in very limited circumstances, and only if the denial of service is directly related to the conflicting belief systems. E.g., a Muslim street vendor shouldn't be able to deny serving me food just because I'm Catholic. |
Immigration › Muslim Immigrant Ban
5>5 Personal answerNo, but the screening process needs to be a lot more thorough. If that means people end up waiting in "camps" for extended periods, then so be it. We are a nation of immigrants, and we don't want to be completely isolationist, but the safety of already existing citizens must come first. |
Social › Planned Parenthood Funding
5>5 Personal answerNo |
the Economy › Minimum Wage
5>5 Personal answerRegardless, minimum wage standards should be adjusted by age group |
the Environment › Climate Change
5>5 Personal answerNo, I'm not sure it's possible to prevent climate change through legislation; it would be better to to keep educating the public and find more effective ways to enforce the legislation we already have. Like gun control, we already have plenty of regulations, they just aren't always enforced uniformly and effectively. |
the Economy › Paid Sick Leave
5>5 Personal answerI do think companies should be required to provide paid sick leave for such events, but within certain limits. The 100+ employees condition seems a fairly arbitrary one, although it would be hard to say what tipping point (number of employees) would be. Oh, and I do think it should come out of the company, not out of the federal government. After all, the company is already paying our salaries; they'll just keep doing it for a few weeks while we're not there for extenuating (and hopefully rare) family circumstances. I also think there should be a time limit on how long they have to pay you: no more than 6-8 weeks (the current limit plus maybe a little more) for any one event seems fair. |
Domestic Policy › Drug Policy
5>5 Personal answerThis needs to be a more nuanced question. What drugs are we talking about? I think different drugs require different legal treatment. For instance, we need to differentiate between illicit/illegal drugs that have no known medicinal value (crack, heroin, LSD, etc.) and medical drugs that are abused. We also need to look at the circumstances. For instance, the case of someone addicted to pain meds (like Rush Limbaugh) who starts abusing them is a completely different situation from kids who raid their parents' medicine chests and throw a "mixed bag" party (or whatever those parties are called) where they throw all the unidentified drugs together in a bowl & just start downing them. |
Domestic Policy › Term Limits
5>5 Personal answerYes |
Foreign Policy › Mandatory Military Service
5>5 Personal answerYes, but there are all kinds of ways to provide military service without actually serving on the front lines. Look for ways to maximize each recruit's particular talents. |
Domestic Policy › Muslim Surveillance
5>5 Personal answerLet's combine the last two options: this decision should be based on crime rates instead of race or religion, AND targeting Muslims (or any specific group) is unconstitutional, racist, and incendiary. |
Immigration › Immigration
5>5 Personal answerYes, if they were born here or came with their parents as children (say, maybe, 13 years and under). They grew up here basically as citizens, and most of them have acted, as they grew, as legal citizens. So since they did not come of their own accord, and have otherwise followed our laws and grown up in our system, they are citizens de facto if not de jure -- so why not make it de jure? |
Education › Student Loans
5>5 Personal answerNo! It's hardly fair to make rich people finance student loans just because they're rich! And I'm speaking as one of the thousands who is having a hard time meeting my student loan payments! |
Social › Death Penalty
5>5 Personal answerYes, but only for horrific crimes with undeniable evidence |
Healthcare › Marijuana
5>5 Personal answerYes, and legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana instead of criminalizing it |
Social › Government Mandates
5>5 Personal answerNo, it should be covered like any other prescription |
Social › Confederate Flag
5>5 Personal answerNo |
Domestic Policy › No-Fly List Gun Control
5>5 Personal answerLet's combine the last two options: This is a slippery slope that could eventually ban the sale of guns to anyone, and it is unconstitutional to deny someone's rights without due process. Besides, anyone on the no-fly list who is actually a terrorist is probably not going about buying guns legally anyway. You'd basically be penalizing law-abiding people. |
Domestic Policy › Gerrymandering
5>5 Personal answerYes, gerrymandering gives an unfair advantage to the party in power during redistricting |
Immigration › Illegal Immigrant Detainment
5>5 Personal answerMinor crimes are still crimes. If the only crime someone has committed is to immigrate illegally, but is otherwise a law-abiding citizen, then I don't think we should go out of our way to hunt them down. (If they're caught for some other reason, they're caught, and all bets are off -- after all, it's still illegal.) However, once they have committed a crime -- even a "minor" one -- it's still a crime, and I think they've opened themselves up to the full range of our laws. |
Healthcare › Medicaid
5>5 Personal answerNo, and each state should decide their own level of coverage |
Science › Mandatory Vaccinations
5>5 Personal answerNo, fund public ad campaigns about the risks and benefits instead |
Immigration › Border Security
5>5 Personal answerNo, make it easier for immigrants to access temporary work visas |
the Environment › Alternative Energy
5>5 Personal answerNo, end all tax credits and subsidies to the energy industry |
Social › Gender Workplace Diversity
5>5 Personal answerNo, board members should be the most qualified regardless of gender |
Immigration › Immigration Healthcare
5>5 Personal answerYes, if they pay taxes. The question is, how to determine whether an illegal immigrant pays taxes; especially in an emergency situation, it's hardly the first question one is inclined to ask. |
Elections › Voter Fraud
5>5 Personal answerYes, but then make it possible for everyone to be able to obtain one. Those who are financially unable to afford one, and can prove it, should have one provided by the state. Something would also have to be figured out for those who live too far away from a state ID station and have no way to get there. Then also make sure that there's enough lead time for them to get one if they need it, before the election cycle begins. |
Domestic Policy › Patriot Act
5>5 Personal answerYes, but limit the scope of the government’s powers |
the Economy › Government Spending
5>5 Personal answerI don't think public spending should be eliminated entirely, but I do think the system needs to be reformed. For instance, it makes NO sense to me that my daughter received social security payments just because her father receives disability. Children of disabled people don't need that money; their parents are still paying their way. That stupid little piece of liberal legislation should have been removed years ago. The government would have already saved huge amounts of money. I'm sure there are other social programs that also include such wasteful kinds of add-ons. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater -- just throw out the dirty bathwater! |
Foreign Policy › Israel
5>5 Personal answerNo. It's one thing to offer our support should it be needed, but I see no reason to just gift them the funding whether they need/want it or not. |
Immigration › Immigrant Assimilation
5>5 Personal answerThey should learn at least a working knowledge of English, since it is the primary language of this country, but they should most certainly not be penalized for -- and perhaps even be encouraged to -- maintain their native languages. There's never any telling when it will be beneficial for the US's purposes to have loyal citizens who can speak other languages fluently. |
Domestic Policy › Net Neutrality
5>5 Personal answerNo |
Social › First Amendment
5>5 Personal answerNo, religion is an important aspect of our country’s history |
Domestic Policy › Gun Liability
5>5 Personal answerNO. Guns don't kill people; people kill people. If we start suing legally acting gun manufacturers and dealers, then we should also start suing knife makers and car makers, because people are routinely killed by those items also. Let's get reasonable, people; reserve your lawsuits for the entities who actually deserve them: the people who committed the violent act in the first place. |
Crime › Solitary Confinement for Juveniles
5>5 Personal answerYes, it is severely psychologically damaging to young undeveloped minds |
Immigration › Skilled Immigrants
5>5 Personal answerIncrease |
Social › Euthanasia
5>5 Personal answerYes, but only after a psychological examination to show they fully understand this choice |
Domestic Policy › Affirmative Action
5>5 Personal answerI think Affirmative Action served its purpose when it was first initiated, but I think, as with so many of these "feel good" programs, it has started being abused, so to speak. It's one thing to make sure that equally qualified minorities have the same chance at a job as well-qualified "majorities," but when under-qualified minorities are being given preference over well-qualified whites, then the situation is out of control. |
the Economy › Labor Unions
5>5 Personal answerHelp, in theory but have recently become corrupt and should have their powers limited |
Education › Common Core
5>5 Personal answerYes, I support the concept but not the current implementation |
Immigration › In-State Tuition
5>5 Personal answerYes, with conditions: as long as they or their parents pay taxes, and as long as they can prove they are attempting to gain citizenship. It is mostly children of illegal immigrants who are affected by this, and if they came with their parents when they were small, they are hardly to blame for their situation. They should also be eligible for financial assistance and scholarships. Some of my best students were children of illegal immigrants. |
the Environment › Oil Drilling
5>5 Personal answerNo, and provide more incentives for alternative energy production |
Foreign Policy › United Nations
5>5 Personal answerYes, and use the U.N. peacekeeping forces to protect our interests |
Healthcare › Obamacare
5>5 Personal answerI'm not sure it's fair to say I support a majority of the plan, but I do support quite a bit of it. I think it really needed to be thought out a lot better than it was, and also that it needed to be kept free of pork-barreling by supporting representatives. |
the Environment › Fracking
5>5 Personal answerNo, more research is needed to measure the long term effects of fracking |
the Economy › Overtime Pay
5>5 Personal answerNo |
Domestic Policy › Eminent Domain
5>5 Personal answerI don't think any government should be able to SEIZE private property, but I do believe they should be able to make a reasonable (not to say generous) offer and trust the property owner will decide to accept it. |
Science › Nuclear Energy
5>5 Personal answerNo, we should invest in cleaner alternatives such as wind, hydroelectric, thorium, and geothermal |
Foreign Policy › Torture
5>5 Personal answerNo, and we should strictly follow the laws of the Geneva Convention |
Foreign Policy › Foreign Aid
5>5 Personal answerI think we should be a lot more selective about whom we give foreign aid to, and for what purposes. Clearly, we need to think of ourselves first, and if this would be one way of reducing our own national deficit, then we need to look to that first. At the same time, we shouldn't completely ignore our neighbors. So it needs to be a fine balance of helping ourselves first, and then considering who is most in need and for what reasons, and just how much we can afford to give, and what conditions we can place on the aid (and how much we can reasonably suppose that our conditions will be met, rather than the aid being co-opted and abused/used where it was not intended or least needed). |
Foreign Policy › ISIS Ground Troops
5>5 Personal answerNot unless it becomes absolutely necessary, and only as part of a coordinated effort by the United Nations. We should NOT be the world's peacekeeper and problem-solver. |
Foreign Policy › North Korea Military Strikes
5>5 Personal answerNo, we should let China address this issue |
Foreign Policy › Drones
5>5 Personal answerOnly to gather intelligence; you'd better have a lot better proof than just "suspicion" before you start killing anyone. |
Science › GMO Labels
5>5 Personal answerYes, consumers have a right to know what is in their food |
Domestic Policy › Social Security
5>5 Personal answerPerhaps this should depend on certain factors, like the field in which one works or one's general state of physical or mental health. E.g., a construction worker's body is likely to give out on him (making it difficult for him to keep working) earlier than a college professor's brain will, so it might make sense for someone working in a very physical field to be able to retire will full benefits earlier than someone in a more "mental" field like higher education. |
the Economy › Estate Tax
5>5 Personal answerYes |
Crime › Criminal Voting Rights
5>5 Personal answerYes, every citizen deserves the right to vote |
Foreign Policy › Terrorism
5>5 Personal answerNo, they are not U.S. citizens and do not have constitutional rights |
Foreign Policy › War on ISIS
5>5 Personal answerNo. We have already seen the result of no-win wars like Viet Nam. We should do what we need to do, to the best of our ability, to protect our citizens, but declaring war is a no-win proposition that will only draw us into a protracted engagement with high casualties on all sides, and little end benefit. We can't win without completely destroying entire populations. |
Science › Space Exploration
5>5 Personal answerYes |
Foreign Policy › NATO
5>5 Personal answerYes, and refusing to defend other NATO countries sets a dangerous precedent for the balance of global power |
Foreign Policy › Ukraine
5>5 Personal answerNo, we should stay out of conflicts that do not directly threaten us |
the Economy › Offshore Banking
5>5 Personal answerOn the one hand, it does seem to contradict our "freedom of" rights to say no, we can't save or invest wherever we want; on the other, it's very true that both wealthy individuals and corporations/business organizations abuse loopholes to evade taxes. So perhaps the better way of saying this is to allow them to invest, but close the loopholes so they still must report the offshore accounts and pay taxes on the money in them. |
Domestic Policy › Edward Snowden
5>5 Personal answerYes, he should be protected under the Whistleblower Protection Act |
the Economy › Federal Reserve
5>5 Personal answerPerhaps it should be audited, but not by Congress. I do agree that it is important for it to remain independent of Congressional oversight. |
Foreign Policy › NSA Surveillance
5>5 Personal answerNo, spying on our allies severely damages our reputation abroad |
the Economy › Farm Subsidies
5>5 Personal answerI think it needs to be more nuanced than any of these options. For instance, I know of people who have certain farm animals on their property just to get the farm subsidies, but they aren't really farmers. I think it should only be for small local farms that can prove that farming is their main business/means of income. There are too many people out there gaming the system, from both the large and the small ends. |
Foreign Policy › Cuba
5>5 Personal answerYes, but perhaps there should still be some conditions on trade with and travel to and from Cuba. |
Foreign Policy › Russian Airstrikes in Syria
5>5 Personal answerNo, we should not get involved |
the Economy › Property Taxes
5>5 Personal answerYes, but dramatically reduce government spending instead of raising taxes |
the Economy › Pension Reform
5>5 Personal answerYes, pension spending is out of control and must be reduced |
the Economy › Bitcoin
5>5 Personal answerNo |
the Economy › Trans-Pacific Partnership
5>5 Personal answerNo, there are too many hidden provisions in this specific agreement |
the Economy › Online Sales Tax
5>5 Personal answerNo, the federal government does not have the authority to impose state and local taxes |
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You side slightly towards “security”, meaning you more often believe the government should do everything within its power to ensure the security of its citizens. This theme is most important to you.
You are a centrist on left wing and right wing issues. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on authoritarian and libertarian issues. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on democratic socialism and capitalism issues. This theme is more important to you.
You side slightly towards “nationalism”, meaning you more often support policies that prioritize the interests of our nation above others. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on politically incorrect and politically correct issues. This theme is more important to you.
You are a centrist on unilateralism and multilateralism issues. This theme is more important to you.
You side slightly towards “religious”, meaning you more often support policies that reflect religious values and principles. This theme is more important to you.
You side moderately towards “protectionism”, meaning you believe globalization is detrimental to the safety, compensation, environment, and standard of living of workers. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You side slightly towards “deregulation”, meaning you more often believe that government regulation stifles innovation and economic prosperity. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on assimilation and multiculturalism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on pacifism and militarism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on traditional and progressive issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on isolationism and imperialism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You are a centrist on individualism and collectivism issues. This theme is somewhat important to you.
You side slightly towards “decentralization”, meaning you more often believe that administrative power and decision making should be handled at the local level and serve the best interests of the local community. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on tender and tough issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on small government and big government issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on keynesian and laissez-faire issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on anthropocentrism and environmentalism issues. This theme is only less important to you.
You are a centrist on meritocracy and democracy issues. This theme is only less important to you.
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