UserWiki:Mayflower76

Religion
I'm a devout Christian. Both of my parents are Christians, and their parents were Christians as well. We go to a small-enough congregation every Sunday, our congregation is part of the Southern Baptist Convention. Both my church and my family are Five-Point Calvinists, commonly known as Reformed.

Trade Policy
While I like Markets and agree that a Free Market Economy helps all parties involved, I feel that in today's environment, America would benefit from a more protectionist policy. American Manufacturing Industry has been declining at a rapidly fast rate for the past 20 or so years, mostly due to our jobs being shipped out to countries like China and Mexico. America went from the Manufacturing Powerhouse of the World to that in decline.

Today only around 10% of American Jobs are in Agriculture (and only a 5th of those are actual Farmers), less than 9% of American Jobs are in Manufacturing, while over 78% of jobs have become Service-Based Jobs. While I recognize that Free Markets are important, and I realize that not everything can be Made In America, I believe that through Protectionist Policies, America could once again become an Economic Powerhouse.

Domestic Regulation Policy
While I recognize that Markets are imperfect and are in necessity of regulation, I would prefer a system where business regulations remained low. We look at the huge monopolies of today, and many would say that by putting regulations on these businesses we would be able to encourage smaller businesses to spring up and stand a chance, but it has been proven time and time again that this is false. The majority of regulations and taxes put on businesses do nothing more than hurt smaller businesses by making them pay more to governments whose representatives probably own shares in those big businesses.

As for minimum wage, while I'm fine with the existence of a reasonable minimum wage, I am of the belief that Minimum Wage Jobs are supposed to be more for Job Training than an actual living wage.

In the discussion of Safety Regulation, I recognize that there must be a basic level of Safety Regulations to avoid workplace casualty, however, I don't believe they should interfere too much with businesses, as I believe a business that puts its employees in danger is a business who wouldn't have employees.

Welfare & Help Policies
I'm not blind to the fact that we need some level of safety net for our poorer citizens, I am still of the belief that our citizens should learn to remain self-sufficient and work hard. I see extremely large welfare states as fostering laziness in their citizens. America didn't become the Richest Nation in the History of the World through large safety nets but through hard work and sweat. Again, I am fine with smaller levels of help networks, things like food stamps, paid-for school lunches, and the such are perfectly normal levels of help, however, a state which breeds laziness and reliance is a state which can never move forward.

Church & State
America is a Christian Nation and should be recognized as such. There is no such thing as separation of church and state, and there never has been. While I don't think we should outlaw other religions or penalize Non-Christians, I also believe that Christianity should be taught in schools, degenerate behavior should be stigmatized, Christ should be proclaimed as our Lord and Savior and America itself should be proclaimed as a Christian Nation.

Abortion
I see Abortion as a fundamental evil that must be outlawed. In my eyes, Abortion is the literal murder of children, and both the doctor and the mother should be tried as murderers. The only exception I'd give for Abortion is if the baby is 100% not Viable or if the Mother's Life is in danger. Other than those 2 example abortions should NEVER be administered.

Some may say that blocking rape victims from abortion is cruel, and to that I say, it is more cruel to prevent an innocent child the gift of life. Justice should be found in punishing the offender harshly.

Homosexuality
I am conflicted about Homosexuality. While I don't agree with it at all, I don't see any real way of outlawing it again. The vast majority of Americans support Homosexual Marriage, and any politician who called for outlawing gay marriage would have their careers destroyed. It's something we will have to let slide.

Gun Rights
America is a country built on the idea of the Right to Bear Arms, and anything against that is just plain Unamerican. I believe that Weapons should be widely available to the public. While I agree that felons should not be able to get their hands on guns, and you should have to register them, I believe the vast majority of weapons should be openly available to the people without restriction, because that's my right gosh darn it.

Voting Rights
A wise man once said "Democracy is Cringe." I believe that to vote you must be able to present an Identification Card, verification of Citizenship and a Job.

The Job part might seem strange to some people, but in my view, if you are not contributing to society by paying taxes, you should not be able to have a say on how tax money is used.

As for the other two requirements, I believe that only Citizens, not Residents, should be able to vote. And quite frankly, if you can't provide a Social Security Number and an ID, you're probably to stupid to vote anyway.

Positive
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Somewhat Positive
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Mixed
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Somewhat Negative
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Negative
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The Devil
Satanic Theocracy - Quite literally Satan.

Comments
- Comment if you want. I will be adding a relations as soon as I can. Glencoe - add me when you can link to ideology: https://polcompballanarchy.miraheze.org/wiki/Glencoeism

Glencoe- i also recommend you check out Market Socialism