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What would be your overall socio-econo-political label? Also, if you feel like differentiating, what labels would you choose for your social, economical and political labels separately.

Overall - Liberal.
Social - Libertarian.
Economic - Neo-monetarist.
Political - Conservative.

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I know labels can be restrictive and often aren't particularly helpful or illuminating, I'm just interested to see what people choose when put in that situation.


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I guess I fall under a mix of Statist/Socialist/Left leaning centrist.

But that's only loosely speaking and I don't usually care enough about labels and divisions to pick a camp ._.


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Social - Right-Wing Libertarian.
I believe in the Libertarian philosophy of do as you please, as long as you don't hurt others but keep a right-wing belief on certain areas like abortion; abortion should be in cases of rape, incest, danger to mother's life, or the possibility of a child developing severe disabilities that would make it difficult for them to live a life (basically if they're going to be a vegetable). I believe in this because a zygote, fetus, etc. possess the traits of life and have 46 chromosomes and it's simply a human life and the  Libertarian ideology of  "as long as you don't hurt others" contradicts abortions without a good reason

I also support stronger restriction on government assistance and the refusal to nationalize health care like the right-wing promotes

Economic - Conservative. Although not too sure where I fall
This is complicated as conservative has varying meanings and being economically conservative can mean things like supporting Laissez-faire or the modern usage of mixed-market economies. In essence I support the removal of the Federal Reserve, the restitution of a gold/silver backed-economy (using paper money as a way to exchange for gold/silver), protectionism (placing the nation first by raising tariffs slightly while decreasing taxes for domestic-based corporations), and the current mixed-market economy where certain services, such as mail, is conducted by the government

Political - Libertarian/Conservative
I support the political standings of Ron Paul (although I support the gold standard) and Gary Johnson (although don't support his full stance on pro-life)


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Freedom loving anti-commie republican conservative.

Honestly I don't pretend like I fully understand politics. From what I gather I have mixed views. I couldn't make an educated decision on what I am...

I can't vote so it's not super important ATM.


 
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the restitution of a gold/silver backed-economy 

Can't say I'm a fan. Although, under a free-banking regime I suppose consumers could be given the option of holding gold-backed currencies.

That being said, George Selgin, a proponent of free banking, is still sceptical of the Gold Standard:
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The claim that the real price of gold has become too volatile to allow that metal to be relied upon as a standard, for example, overlooks the extent to which gold’s price depends on the demand for private gold hoards, which has become both very great and very volatile precisely because of the uncertainty that fiat money regimes have inspired. The claim also overlooks the tendency for a metal’s price to become more stable as it becomes more widely adopted as a monetary standard.

Nor is it the case that there is not enough gold in the United States to support a new gold standard. According to Lawrence White, the Treasury’s gold stock, assuming that it is indeed what the Treasury itself claims, would at an official gold price of $1,600 per troy ounce be worth almost 20 percent of 2012 M1, making for “a more than healthy reserve ratio by historical standards.”

There are, however, some more compelling reasons for doubting that a return to gold would prove worthwhile. One is the prospect that any restoration of the convertibility of dollars into gold might be so disruptive that the short-run costs of the reform would outweigh any long-run gains it might bring. A second compelling reason has to do with the specific disadvantage of a unilateral return to gold. Here, once again, it must be recalled that the historical gold standard that is remembered as having performed so well was an international gold standard, and that the advantages in question were to a large extent advantages due to belonging to a very large monetary network.

Finally and perhaps most importantly, it is more doubtful than ever before that any government-sponsored and -administered gold standard would be sufficiently credible to either be spared from or to withstand redemption runs.

It's worth reading the entire thing.

On a social note, I agree that life essentially begins at conception.

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Can't say I'm a fan. Although, under a free-banking regime I suppose consumers could be given the option of holding gold-backed currencies.

That being said, George Selgin, a proponent of free banking, is still sceptical of the Gold Standard:
It's worth reading the entire thing.

On a social note, I agree that life essentially begins at conception.



I skimmed through the link and I noticed one thing: No mention of the 1970 (or 1971) act that fully eliminated the remainder of the gold standard. While it does mention the 1934 act of basically banning gold for civilian ownership, gold was still used as money backing till the 1970s. At that time our national debt numbered like $20B (rough estimate) due to being limited by the reserve of gold. Ever since then the debt has greatly risen to the current $17T because there's no limitation of the amount of money that can be printed. Basically we've been increasing inflation for the past 3+ decades and it'll only get worse, especially due to Iran not selling itself and oil to America. Oil is the only thing giving the dollar any value and we know oil is a non-renewable resource so it greatly explains American hostility and war-like nature in areas rich with oil
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Fun fact with this video: Around 1:50 mark, clip of Nixon is shown and he mentions Secretary Connally (John Connally); that's one of my distant cousins.....think 4th or 5th but nerveless I'm related to him

Anyway, the path to a gold standard would take time. It would involve maintaining a level budget yearly, pay off debt/interest and reduce spending to get back to a responsible level where the gold in existence can cover the money bills
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I skimmed through the link and I noticed one thing: No mention of the 1970 (or 1971) act that fully eliminated the remainder of the gold standard. While it does mention the 1934 act of basically banning gold for civilian ownership, gold was still used as money backing till the 1970s. At that time our national debt numbered like $20B (rough estimate) due to being limited by the reserve of gold. Ever since then the debt has greatly risen to the current $17T because there's no limitation of the amount of money that can be printed. Basically we've been increasing inflation for the past 3+ decades and it'll only get worse, especially due to Iran not selling itself and oil to America. Oil is the only thing giving the dollar any value and we know oil is a non-renewable resource so it greatly explains American hostility and war-like nature in areas rich with oil

Fun fact with this video: Around 1:50 mark, clip of Nixon is shown and he mentions Secretary Connally (John Connally); that's one of my distant cousins.....think 4th or 5th but nerveless I'm related to him

Anyway, the path to a gold standard would take time. It would involve maintaining a level budget yearly, pay off debt/interest and reduce spending to get back to a responsible level where the gold in existence can cover the money bills
Some inflation is better than zero inflation because prices (especially wages) can be incredibly sticky and can threaten the flow of nominal income; it's no surprise that countries recovered from the Great Depression in the order that they stopped exchanging currency for gold. Speaking about nominal income, the Fed has actually been quite contractionary with its monetary policy throughout recent history.

As for the petrodollar? That's dubious at best, and I have my problems with SCG despite the obvious fearmongering. It's tempting to view U.S. foreign policy through one monolithic lens, and it makes sense. But, as David Hume says, reason is the slave of the passions, and, having an intuition towards patterns, its easy to fall into a system and then reason your way into justifying it. His claim that the U.S. lost revenue by switching the sale of oil into dollars from euros doesn't make much sense, and he essentially boils the entire thing down to mad bankers pushing us towards a global apocalypse in order to prop up the dollar; it's un-falsifiable. Once you create a paradigm where aggressive behaviour supposedly falls under some elaborate, aggregate plan you can then stamp your feet and point to further aggression as vindication when really all you're doing is making a lot of noise about nothing.

By the way, American foreign policy is probably driven more by pro-Israeli sentiments than the petrodollar. That'll be tested fairly soon anyway, since the petrodollar just died.


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By the way, American foreign policy is probably driven more by pro-Israeli sentiments than the petrodollar. That'll be tested fairly soon anyway, since the petrodollar just died.

Good lord, the comments on that article are nothing short of the habbeding.

It's amusing to see the US get dethroned on that though <.<
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If you had to pick one label.

Which overrides which? The constitution, or your sense of liberty?


 
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