User:Loris1729
Views
General Views
My political philosophy is basically live and let live. I consider myself liberal and conservative at the same time, seeing no contrast between freedom and tradition because freedom is Western tradition. I think that while the old authoritarian versions of the dynastic European conservatism of the 18th century were opposed to freedom, with the disappearance of this trend the task of the conservatives and the right-wing today is precisely the defense from the socialist tyranny of the classical liberal and democratic values that have made the West great, I think that true liberalism (not the American left-wing "liberals" who are authoritarian statists who are anything but liberal) is the best and definitive stage of human civilization and that it has been absorbed by conservatism and has become conservative, although was revolutionary in the past.
Views on State
I believe in a democratic, presidential, federal, liberal republic that grants universal suffrage and complete freedom of speech to all.
Social Views
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I think everyone should be able to do what they want in their bedroom not having to answer to the state but only to God if they believe in it. I can support some form of civil union to ease bureaucratic issues but I believe that marriage should be more of a religious affair than a state one, and being Catholic for me religious marriage is between a man and a woman. I am against woke ideology and in general I think that these topics regarding an individual's sexual sphere belong to privacy and should leave the political discourse.
Econonomic Views
I support a more laissez-faire and less bureaucratic approach, the privatization of some sectors (although some such as the police is out of the question), cuts to welfare (which makes people without autonomy and dependent from the government and from money taken from successful people through coercion) and lower taxes as the best way to increase economic growth and stimulate merit and creativity intrinsic to capitalism. Having said this, I differ from libertarians in believing that the state is not necessarily anti-freedom and that it is actually complementary to freedom in certain cases, with things like the right to life, the right to property (including intellectual property) or rights to privacy that would not be defensible in a hypothetical ancapistan, unless you have the money to pay for a private police force.
Geopolitical Views
I am firmly in favor of the Western democratic camp against the Russian-Chinese tyrants and their domestic sympathizers. I believe that dictators are necessarily warmongers and imperialists and that to defend itself and freedom in the world the West must arm any democratic rebels or free states under attack, although peace must be preserved and therefore direct invasions of dictatorships must be avoided to avoid global escalations as long as they do not attack a NATO state.
Religious Views
I consider myself a devout Catholic and as the Church and liberalism teaches I believe in religious freedom for all. I believe that Christianity with its advanced (for the age of pagan slaveism in which it flourished) views on equality and its adherence to free will contributed massively to the development of democratic ideas in the West. While I am not against the separation of church and state and do not want to impose my views on anyone, I personally hold deeply to traditional Christian beliefs and I do not like progressive Christian trends such as theological modernism, which in my view distort the integral message of the Bible. I am strongly in favor of ecumenism, especially with others Christians like the Orthodox and Protestants such as the Anglicans and the Lutherans who are the least distant from Catholicism (with the Calvinists it is already more complicated).
