Middletownianism

Middletownianism is the precedent for the Self-Insert of Great-clarinet. It is a middling left, spiritually Anglo-Catholic, consentez-a-faire social democracy. Its civic neutrality is born of his desire for a government structure to balance man’s tyrannical-autocratic and liberal democratic-anarchic wishes (tyrannos and demokrator). It is culturally third position, advocating more democratic control over technical progress and social progress, but also seeing whatever traditions may lie behind apparent “novelty/ies” as worth knowing about. It is diplomatically micro-patriotic, alter-nationalist and interregnalist.

His all-time favorite negative phrase toward other ideologies is “I don’t hate you, but I am very mad at you”. He sees active hatred as an extremely stupid emotion to have, making people hurt others for not even apparent gain of their own. His all time most maddening ideologies are individualists who claim to be on the bottom of the political compass. They madden him so much because they fundamentally defy the origins of the idea of liberal democracy in sociocentric Ancient Greece and the title of an absolute monarch as “The First Individual in History”. He will not hesitate to enlighten them into aspiring toward isonomy.

Overall
Middletownianism is on middling left-wing on the economic scale, and his economics overall are described as consentez-a-faire social distributist economics combined with georgist, and social-democratic policies, willing to protect the working class' well being as well as ensure equity and happiness amongst the populace whilst ensuring an economy strong enough to sustain those very things, the reason why he supports equity is because he believes it can be beneficial to society overall, as it emphasizes the need of cooperation, a key component to why human societies have been able to survive, and it's general promotion of happiness, in which he sees this as something humanity seeks, whilst the end goals of his might be idealistic to some he would adopt some pragmatist points as well in order to achieve this end, as whilst he understands that greed is an evil that must be shunned, it cannot be rid of due to it being an ideal sadly, as ideals are but abstract and are products of the mind and therefore cannot be removed, but what he can do is significantly limit it's influence, although he is against the idea of a large wealth gap between the rich and the poor, he also sees the total equality of outcome to be somewhat foolish and utopian, and prefers equality of opportunity, in which people are to be given the chance to be happy, because of this, he rejects the solutions of communism and conventionally-regulated market socialism or welfare capitalism and instead prefers to be a consentez-a-faire social distributist, though he is also willing to adopt he does not know what else so as to be more flexible in options in achieving the society he would envision.

[[File:ML.png]] Command Economy [[File:Keynes.png]] or Free market? [[File:Marketsoc.png]]
In a case like this, Middletownianism is preferrably a mixed market economy that leans towards markets, He takes some elements of economic planning since he is supportive on the equal distribution of resources but doesn't support an economy primarily based off state economic planning as it can be stagnant due to it being dependent over the government for spreading goods and can lead to it being overly bureaucratic at times, thus he adopts privatish planning and elements of a market economy to prevent such stagnation, as he believes that it can ensure efficiency through independent enterprises spreading goods through the promotion of the availability of multiple brands, however, there should be measures if a market economy would truly be efficient, thus, he would apply anti-trust, anti-usury, and consumer protection laws, as well as some supervision not only to ensure the survivability of the competitive spirit on the market, but to prevent exploitation as well.

[[File:Welf.png]] The welfare state
Middletownianism Advocates for a strong, Universalist welfare state, Believing that what people need like water, food, shelter, and healthcare are deserving of easy access as he cares for the well being of the people, although he believes that most of the welfare should go to people struggling on a socioeconomic level such as lower class citizens with a Job and those in poverty.

Whilst he prefers welfare to private charity, he will allow private charities to exist provided they are not a scam.

Healthcare
Middletownianism is an avid supporter of Universal and Free healthcare, for it greatly fits in with his beliefs in egalitarianism, however, citizens should still pay for medicine in order to cover restocking costs, and that those who must drink, smoke, or overeat should still pay for surgery, since they are the ones at fault for ending up in those conditions, He also believes that one must be a citizen/permanent resident should he receive free healthcare, He wishes to increase funding towards the healthcare industry

He also wishes to prevent people from abusing the system and that people are expected to take measures of responsibility, he does this through methods such as: He also wishes to adequately fund and staff the healthcare system as well as make the primary care services of the healthcare system owned fully by the public (although some specialist services are allowed to be provided privately).
 * Fining people for a significant amount to those who miss out on two or more GP appointments
 * Charging people that are abusing drugs, Obese, Smoking, and being Alcoholics for the treatments that are responsible for their horrid conditions.

[[File:Synd.png]] Worker Rights
Middletownianism Believes that Workers are Important for society and are very contributive to it, therefore, their well being is also important, With this, he supports the promotion of self-managed worker cooperatives with the elements of semi-direct workplace democracy with state intervention primarily in the interests of the workers and their employees akin to Democratic Corporatism and Titoist Yugoslavia's self-governing socialism, he is also promotive of good working conditions, as he believes that toxic working conditions make workers less productive due to wage slavery and is the reason why horrid movements such as antiwork exist.

Unions
As he is supportive of Worker Rights, he also supports unionization as well, most especially in interparochialized (i. e. representatively nationalized)/heavily regulated enterprises, but are also allowed in smaller ones, he will also recommend them, although they are not a requirement, as Unionized workers can fight exploitation and gain strength that is not possible for individual workers, he also supports widespread ownership in major industries and essential services.

He is sympathetic the armament of workers, as Karl Marx put it: "Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered: any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary." as an armed workforce can fight against the government (or weaken it) should it take a turn for the worse and defend their rights.

He wishes to add an amendment making it a constitutional right to join a union, although this will only apply to major industries and big businesses representative with unions present. Small and medium businesses may become representative or unionized if they wish to do so, but it won’t be required, although one will have full rights to join a union, believing that it is a worker exercising their right to work, and such unions aren’t present in countries like North Korea. Union-busting would become an unconstitutional act.

[[File:Socdem.png]] Enterprise [[File:Soccap.png]]
In this scenario, the amount of regulations an enterprise would have to face is depending on it's size, on larger ones, they will be subject to heavy regulations/interparochialization in the cases where it is an essential service and therefore owned by both the state and by unions, whilst small to medium ones would be subject to only a little or a modest amount of them and are allowed to be privatized, however, there would be some small scale supervision and that unions would be granted the allowance to be formed as well as workplace democracy being implemented, although they wouldn't be really required for those small to medium businesses.

On to the topic of farms, he is an advocate for land reform and wants to have farmlands publicly owned to redistribute food for the poor, but will allow some private farms so one can grow his/her own crops and store his/her own food to prepare for a national food shortage just in case, in that matter, he fuses both communalism and individualism, as he believes that not only should food not be hoarded by a select few and allow the people to unite for cooperation on labour and civil matters, but allow individual liberty and prevent one from losing self-reliance in the event that misfortune falls upon them.

[[File:Geokitty.png]] Housing
Middletownianism is sympathetic to Georgism in this regard, believing that the house should belong to it's occupier, and advocates for a land value tax alternately to a property tax, and a assessing a universal basic value for the purpose of either tax, in this regard, he opposes propertarianism and landlordism, as he sees that landlords could be but lazy land hoarding exploiters who contribute rather little to society but for having to pay property taxes.

He is also thinks that homelessness is a major problem, so he combats this through the construction of government built houses that are to be suited to provide the basic needs for a citizen, although despite the rather anti-landlord and anti-homelessness sentiment, he also believes that if a person refuses to work, that person wouldn't get those very benefits.

Trade
Middletownianism is balanced towards free trade and protectionism, he supports trade between nations but also supports some sort of protectionism in the form of some tariffs, the reason why is because whilst he sees trade between nations as beneficial due to allowing economic growth, he only sees it as beneficial if it's mutual and not one sided, and he doesn't like the idea of unrestricted free trade as it can allow foreign dominance that can discourage local production and thus allow foreign powers to take advantage by treading on the sovereignty of a nation economically therefore subjugating it by making it in debt on those very powers which offsets the benefits of said economic growth (This is also true for free trade within individual nations), he doesn't like the ideas of extreme protectionism and total self-reliance either, as it can prevent economic growth as seen in North Korea.

Wealth
As it was said before, Middletownianism wishes for economic equity and thus wishes to lower the wealth gap and get rid of both the extremes of the rich and poor scale as with a small middle class, this can lead to a massive disparity of power, he is alright with some being richer than others provided the wealth they gained is through ethical methods and hard work, he is tolerant towards millionaires but not billionaires, as the wealth of billionaires are gained through shady methods, thus, the wealth earned by those who done shady methods shall be redistributed and be given to healthcare, welfare, environmental programs, infrastructure, housing, and so on.

A program similar to the share the wealth programs of Huey Long combined with some elements of Duterte's Ten-point agenda would be implemented, he would implement a wealth tax on the wealthy and thus redistribute the wealth gained by those exploitative to help the poor through the improvement and funding of welfare, education, healthcare, housing infrastructure, and rural development programs, as well as use some of that wealth for technological and scientific development.

Taxation
As he believes that extreme inequality can put a strain to society, he wishes to prevent this through the implementation of high level taxation, the following taxes and their usages are examples on how he would prevent such problems: those taxes would be used to reduce economic inequality, fund the social safety net, and for the reduction of debt to a tolerable and acceptable level.
 * Progressive income tax: prevent the negative effects of wealth accumulation
 * Land Value tax: put a halt on land hoarding
 * Carbon tax: incentivize companies to be less carbon-oriented and reduce pollution
 * Minimum Corporate tax rate: prevention of capital flight
 * Value tax: raises revenue and raises the difficulty of tax evasion
 * Digital service tax: greatly strengthen the difficulty of tax evasion done by Multinational corporations.

As for sales tax, for true goods such as groceries, it shall be kept allowed to charge to buyers, but will be converted into a fine to seller for everything else, a table shall be shown on how Middletownianism would apply the sales tax which it shall allow localities to set for themselves:

True goods: Potential and Actual Ills: He is sympathetic towards the implementation of a 15-dollar minimum wage as for people to make a living wage, but it may potentially force companies to fire employees to prevent bankruptancy which can lead to unemployment, so just in case for the time being the minimum wage would be around 12-13 dollars, 11-12 dollars on small companies.
 * Water and nutritious drinks
 * Household and Hygenic supplies that contain few suspected toxins
 * medicine,
 * Nutritious food
 * School and Work supplies
 * Furniture
 * Unhealthy food and drinks
 * Plastic materials that aren't at least 50% biodegradable/reusable
 * Non-medical Marijuana
 * Alcohol
 * Tobacco
 * (Semi-)Automatical firearms

Usury
Middletownianism wishes to strengthen protection against exorbitant banking charges as well as usurious interest rates and start a tough crackdown on Usury and punish individuals, companies, and most especially corporations that dare do such acts, he will also force those who do such like major companies to pay their fair share of taxes.

the punishment of such crime will range from a prison sentence to the death penalty depending on how severe the crime, the latter of which will be reserved on those who commit human trafficking and anything related to such, but require the impeachment and irrevocable exclusion from public office of judges who abuse criminal justice to try to get away with domestic terrorism themselves.

Overall
Middletownianism considers himself at the middle of the road in terms of authority, He promotes a government structure to balance man’s tyrannical-autocratic and liberal democratic-anarchic wishes (tyrannos and demokrator) not only for order, but also to protect and respect civil liberties as well, in fact promoting the idea that a truly strong government inherently respect civil liberties and authorities, he's neither a fan of totalitarianism nor an advocate of anarchism, as he views the former as not only narcissistic and immoral but also overly bureaucratic and inefficient, and the latter being incredibly chaotic and idealistic.

Unitary or Federal
In the question on Middletownianism having a mainly Central or Decentral government, He is a federalist unless on the case if a country is homogenous or small such as Singapore and both Koreas, believing that every decision shouldn't always be made in the capital and that overcentralization can cause major issues and that it would be inefficient, he is however against confederalism as it gives loval governments too much power which often results in them surpassing what the central authority on what they can do and override national/state laws.

He also supports semi-direct democracy. He believes that it should be implemented on the city/town level (and district level for big cities), and county level. But believes that implementing it on the state and national level may cause the country to be dysfunctional, Although direct democracy can be implemented on the national level if the country is very small. An example of such would be Singapore.

Local communities
The idea of popular assemblies, particularly on villages and small towns is something that interests Admiralism, as it can be potentially efficient on decision making on those very subdivisions, the way how these assemblies work will be similar to the basic people's congresses in Gaddafi's Libya, where those assemblies will still abide to national laws, although the state and national government wouldn't make the personal decision making unless such assembly contradicts national law and that the degree of influence by the state would be little and that the assembly, he will make the state and national government provide some support to those assemblies however, essentially creating a semi-federal governmental system.

He also believes that rejection of the excesses of the woke agenda should start from the bottom up, with those very communities rejecting and condemning the excesses of the woke agenda and it's attempts to influence and indoctrinate as well as protecting the populace against advocates of such threat with online influencers being one of them, such influence of those communities will reach the state level and finally the national level.

The justice system
He is supportive of rehabilitation, as he believes that people have a chance to reintegrate back into becoming useful and respectful members of society, although there are limits to how many chances he will give, as he also believes that whilst people do have a chance to reintegrate, there are also people who can lie and manipulate the authorities through the rehabilitative system and continue their criminal actions, thus, the punishment for a crime will be harsher every time it's repeated and every time rehabilitation is done, they will have to do community service for a period of time, he also doesn't want prisons to be neither hellholes for prisoners, nor hotel style like Norwegian prisons, as to minimize brutality and the chance of escape for prisoners

On minor crimes, he believes that the punishment should be light, where as on more serious crimes, rehabilitation will still be applied, but the punishment will be harsher. The death penalty will be applied, but only if those serious crimes were to be repeated often. Moreover, mandatory impeachment and irrevocable exclusion from public office will be applied to judges for overusing it to try to get away with domestic terrorism themselves.

Police
He likes the idea of a well equipped police force, as a strong police force may help combat criminal activity more effectively, he is however against police brutality, and is personally fine with an unmilitarized police as long as they are still armed and can fulfill their role effectively.

He also believes in police reform, as he believes that the police for should not only be less brutal and less corrupt, but also to be more efficient and effective on fulfilling it's role on maintaining public order and safety, enforcing the law, and preventing, detecting, and investigating criminal activities.

[[File:GRights.png]] Gun Ownership
Gun Ownership is allowed, as it becomes much harder for foreign imperialists to subjugate and conquer an armed populace, however, he understands the negative effects of gun rights, but still wishes to maintain it, so his solution is that a gun license is required if you were to own one, those with a criminal record or are mentally unfit however are not permitted to own a gun, plus, a mental health test will be done yearly for gun owners to prove if a citizen is still responsible enough to wield firearms, a gun safe is also required for all those who bear firearms.

Despite such regulations and background checks implemented to prevent criminals from taking advantage for such, he refuses to let a law-abiding citizen denied having the right to bear arms, for it would be considered tyranny to him as to deny one the right to wield firearms would be unjust if one is responsible and goodwilled.

[[File:Dem.png]] Type of government
Depending on the situation, if it's on a nation that is still stable, he supports a semi-direct democratic republic, and is willing to adopt an aristocracy or monarchy so as to be more flexible in options in where to achieve the society he would envision, that would crack down hard on nepotism, lobbying, usury, and corruption so it can stay true to it's name of "rule of the people", to further ensure this, he would implement a cardinal voting system, though he is mixed on the issue of term limits.

When it's on a nation that is unstable and poor, he supports a modified Vanguardist-Coastguardist system that would adopt libertarian aspects such as direct democracy, freedom of speech, net neutrality, cultural and informal freedoms, and the allowance of the criticism of the government, likening to the idea of a benevolent dictatorship, in which that dictatorship will ultimately transition into the semi-direct democracy as he mentioned earlier once the situation is stabilized, the reason why those modifications are in place is because not only to prevent the vanguardx-coastguard party from being corrupt, overly bureaucratic, and inefficient, but to make the transition to democracy possible, although some of those elements wouldn't be implemented until some time on the early stages of the formation of the Avante-garde-côté-garde state on certain cases where the situation of the country is very unstable.

Voting
Middletownianism is a supporter of voting rights and believes that a voting ID that is free of charge is required where the only requirement being documents and proof of citizenship.

He is supportive on a multi-party democracy, on the idea of having an electoral college or popular vote however, he is opposed to having an electoral college alone, as he doesn't want big and influential areas deciding the choice of presidency, but also wants to prevent plurality voting and let the most popular be elected for office.

Republicanism
Middletownianism believes that there should be a republic, as he wants a constitutional government ruled by the people and that political power should be obtained through effort, he also wants to promote that a leader must have his limits when ruling, thus he is against almost all forms of monarchism, as he is belligerent and disavowal on the idea of that one must obtain power and leadership just through a royal background and that one must rule till abdication/death, he also believes that it encourages elitism, but this is something Middletownianism goes for, within limits.

Vanguardism-Coastguardism
Middletownianism believes that a truly democratic government should actively represent a concensus of its citizens. To achieve this, he wants a government where all of the parties share a plank in their platforms (plures super unum). In addition to all supporting religious freedom, they shall all commit to “stating the Major scale with the certainty of Modern theory”. In more direct terms, this amounts to promotion of upper structures as valid modes of it. However, this does not mean treating them in an absolutely egalitarian way. This is a physical absurdity, a solo human voice can generally reach beyond an eleventh neither easily nor comfortably. Apart from these two planks, the parties may and should have political positions all over the map.

Balancing the tyrannos and demokrator
Though Middletownianism permits authoritarian political parties, he wants strong checks to prevent them from dominating his politics. Although having of the parties eligible to contest elections share a plank in their platforms would be considered enough of a check by common standards, the Middletownian vision is exceptional on the side of strength in this regard. Not only do authoritarians have to share a plank in their platforms with libertarians and Middletownians, they contest authoritarian-only elections on a separate schedule from libertarians and Middletownians. Libertarian and Middletownian officeholders may also semi-summarily override any laws the authoritarian division of the government passes.