My Politics

• Former Democrat
  
• Currently not affiliated with either of the two main parties.
• Considering Green Party membership for local politics.
• Green Party of the United States
• Considering Libertarian Party membership for national politics.

• "Clinic" style medical entities are the most effecient, and should be encouraged, fostered, and utilized wherever possible.  By-procedure & referral-chain healthcare delivery and billing is horribly ineffecient.
  
• Reform campaign finance by limiting corporate and PAC contributions; provide equal airtime to all recognized state and national political parties on a given ballot.
• Force transparency of the Federal Reserve.
• Literal free markets don't exist.  Anyone complaining about regulation simply wishes to meddle with the markets in a way other than the current way.  I don't know how to fix this.  Ideas?
  
• Greens & Libertarians can agree:  Agribusiness subsidies are incredibly harmful to everyone in that industry save for the few at the top, are inefficient and dangerous, and are not sustainable.
• Science & Technology need renewed focus and resources or we'll fail to continue as a world leader, and eventually, as even a relevant participant.
• Personal liberties of abortion, stem-cell cultivation, assisted suicide have no business in federal politics.  Likely so for state politics as well.
• The "war on drugs" is being mis-handled; it's silly name speaks volumes to how the issue is being approached incorrectly.
  
• Inprisonment in it's current incarnation is almost never rehabilitative.  Honest decisions should be made that balance public safety with a renewed initiative to rehabilitate those that society might agree should be given the opportunity to do so.
• Reform copyright law.  Copyrights keep things out of the public domain for far too long.  The rights to timeless music created by people who no longer exist are traded like commodities by people who didn't have any stake in creating it in the first place.  Book copyright lasts far longer than the content is usually relevant for.
• Reform the USPTO.  No more phony software and/or "business process" patents.  Employ an impartial and highly technical patent approval jury to determine the benefit or harm of patenting a particular technology, and whether it's valid to patent in the first place.  Progressively disipline patent trolls, up to the point of forbidding future patents and/or realisticly punitive fines.
  
• More to come, along with more coherent organization of topics.

• Again: I feel the need to emphysize that personal politics need not have negative associations no matter how much they differ; a lot of close friends that I regard quite highly have almost 180˚ different views; no big deal :)