Well, doing this to the best of my abilities:
Economics: I would generally consider myself right wing on economics, so I suppose these would be the exceptions to the rule:
- Healthcare: While I am not opposed to private healthcare per se, I have come to the conclusion that it's a market where competition isn't necessarily the most efficient way of providing it, and so I tihnk some basic level of healthcare should be considered a public necessity and paid for by the government.
- Free Trade: Only if you consider protectionism to be right wing, if you consider protectionism to be left wing then my stance is very much is line with right wing economics.
- Welfare: While I tihnk that social welfare programs are often mismanaged and handled inefficiently, I do think that a social safety net is necessary and I think that "corporate welfare", such as farm subsides, are much more harmful to the market and how it operates than social welfare.
- Antitrust Laws: Basically, my thoughts are that competition is generally good and monopolies are generally bad, so I do think there are situations where it is justified for the government to break up large corporations, which puts me very much at odds with hardline anti-government intervention types.
- Carbon Tax: I'm not sure if this really fits here, but I am not opposed to carbon taxes, and actually on a philosophical level consider taxes on externalities to be more justified than taxes on income.
Domestic issues: I am generally considered on the libertarian side here, so here are my less libertarian stances:
- Death Penalty: I don't consider the death penalty to be cruel and unusual punishment, and consider it's use justified for mass murders and the like.
- Background Checks: I support them. Of course, I oppose most other forms of gun control, so I don't know if this really counts as unlibertarian of me...
- Abortion: Assuming that libertarian equals less regulation, I do think that there should be some regulation on abortion, such as a cutoff date for non-medically necessary abortions, though I still call myself "pro-choice" becasue I think abortion should be legal more often than not.
Foreign Policy: This one is harder to do, since there are so many philosophies and nuances to it. I guess I will list my deviations from what would be considered the standard "hawkish" position:
- The UN: While it's a flawed organisation, I think it does more good than harm overall, and I would very much be opposed to any attempts at pulling out of the UN. If I lived in Europe, I think I would be saying the same thing about the EU.
- ISIS: For the sake or pragmatism, I think we need to be willing to work with nations like Syria and Russia to fight against ISIS, though we need to make it very clear that any such alliances are temporary and only for the purpose of achieving that specific goal.
There are probably more things that aren't coming to mind right now.
