My Crazy Mixed Up Beliefs

.Recently, I finished reading a book by Michael Lind, called "The Radical Center." After reading his book, I can identify with most of what he talks about. I disagree with Lind on some specific details of certain issues. However, I do agree with most of his reasoning. I consider myself to be a Radical Center Conservative. I'm sure that many Liberals would consider themselves to be Radical Center Liberals. If that were the case, we could fix a lot of the problems in this country, by agreeing on 90% of most issues, and agreeing to disagree on the other 10% where we don't agree, but are willing to wortk together to reduced that 10% to about 5%.

What a  lot of it boils down to is the fact that we are not really a red America or a blue America. We are a purple America. Some of us lean more to the red side of the purple and some of us lean more toward the blue side of the purple. For example: I can't think of any conservative senior citizen that would be willing to give up their social security checks that they get each month. They may bitch and holler about handouts and entitlements, but don't you dare touch social security or medicare.

With these thoughts in mind, here are where I currently stand on certain issues. I can't name them all, because things change over the years. I'll add posts as I think of things to say...