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Government

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[[File:Dem.png]] Democracy [[File:Dem.png]]
I prefer Democracy as my preferred form of government, the reason as to why is simple, even if it is not perfect, no better form of government has ever been tried. For example, totalitarian governments have resulted in the deaths of at max hundreds of millions of people and have suppressed people and publicly purged their opponents, in typical totalitarian style. Totalitarian governments always lead to blood shed and the suppression of individual freedoms. Democracy may not be ideal, but the only major alternative we have to it is even worse.

Although, we do have to recognize that our current system of democracy isn't perfect either. With it being taken over by plutocrats, with corporations today having more power than ever over our own democracy. We need to have harsh regulations against corporate lobbying and monopolies in order to revive democracy. However, outside of this, there is a more structural flaw to democracy that needs to be solved, and that is the fact that it is constitutional democracy, which it restricts the people's voice, especially on legislation. As such, I support a Semi-direct democracy based on a voting system of  Liquid democracy, making sure that our society is more democratic than ever and the people are represented and have a voice over which things get passed or not, although, representatives will still have some degree of power to prevent things like mob rule.

[[File:Antiparty.png]] Semi Non-Partisan Democracy [[File:Antiparty.png]]
In general, I do not support the abolishment of political parties, especially when it comes to parliamentary elections and I believe political parties can actually play a better role than without them. Because, even if there are no political parties, they will come back inevitably without regulations on maintaining non-partisanism. As such, I support political parties as they can represent the overall political tone of the populace much better than without them being there.

However, in presidential elections, where the role of the president is mostly ceremonial (just like in parliamentary/some semi-presidential countries), presidential candidates would have to be  non-partisan overall and not affiliate themselves with a political party, in order to make sure that the President is not necessarily politically biased.

[[File:Civlibert.png]] Civil Libertarianism [[File:Civlibert.png]]
I believe that the government must hold a pro-privacy stance, as such, civically his government shall be aligned with principles of  liberalism, with me defining liberalism civically as wanting individual liberty. We need to bring these principles back into government in order to end the surveillance state that has been accumulating and bring us back to a time where individuals anonymity is respected. Its expansion has clearly and intentionally not been for the interest of the people and in fact has been against the people's interest as leakings of the scale of it, in the case of Edward Snowden have resulted in him becoming a citizen of America's authoritarian rival just for him to not get punished for his heroic act.

As such, the surveillance needs to be heavily weakened for the best interests of the people and whistleblowing should be a completely legal thing to do and the government should at least declassify documents at most 5 years after they're made. Unneeded spying programs need to be revoked and I am not saying there can't be things like CCTV cameras they can be useful in catching criminals but cameras should not display personal information like height, weight, age, name etc. this information is used by governments/corporations to know everything about you and your preferences. This cannot be known by them unless you want them to know them. A.k.a. on your own consent.

Expansions of CCTV camera services to personal info is terrible as I said but also wiretapping and other practices added upon them which count as severe breaches of privacy and have resulted in authoritarianism becoming more rampant in the West. The government needs to be there for the people when it is needed, like for welfare programs and  core industries. As such, I civically support policies of  civil libertarianism.

[[File:Laicism.png]] Laicism [[File:Laicism.png]]
I believe that we need to curb the influence of churches on politics and our daily life. At first, I would advocate for a separation of church and state however in the long-term I would advocate for separation of church from not just state but also our politics and life. We need to bust mega-churches like other mega-corporations and heavily scale down their lobbying power over our politicians, I am not saying lobbying should not exist at all, but  regulation is needed.

I also believe that there should be no official religion and while I do reject the existence of churches this does not mean I reject people believing in a certain religion, they can do that, but in their own house. Not going to church. Some Christians already do this, churches just take up funding that would otherwise go towards something more useful and compassionate, like a hospital, example being 

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Closest match : Libertarian Socialism

Closest match : Liberal Socialism

Closest match : Left-Libertarianism