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  I will list policies one number at a time and name the political Party I align with on each policy and I will offer an explanation under the number if needed plus discuss policy differences under each policy listed if needed.

  The 4 parties I will list to align myself with on each policy are Libertarian, Republican, Independent and Democrat. I doubt I will align with Democrat on anything but it’s possible I’ll find one policy I align as Democrat on as I go through making a list of policies; we are about to find out. (Note: My Party labels changed some as I went through the assessment test, so they are reordered with new Independent and Dependent Party names at the end of this Political Party alignment Assessment blog)

  Before I start, I’ll mention two more parties: the Green party and the Constitution party. Many people view the green party as an extreme Communist Party who aligns with the Democrats. I am not as familiar with the Constitution party but it is a conservative party that aligns with Republicans.

  I used to be Republican but have recently been defining myself as independent. I will say ahead of making my assessment list of where I align that I am libertarian on some issues and I’m Republican on some issues and I call myself independent because there are certain issues that I think are influential and the libertarians go too far on the issue of not regulating drugs, whereas the Republicans don’t do enough to allow for Street drugs to be taking off the street and regulated by having licensed dealers who make safer forms of natural plant medicines, and Democrats pretty much support the cartels that bring us the street drugs that are often synthetic and have date rape drugs mixed in and are basically run by extorters, thieves, killers and opportunists. Therefore, I am an independent on drug policy, but technically I identify somewhere in between the Republicans views and the Libertarians views on drug policy. I think the Democrat Party drug policy is all a bunch of Lies they pretend to support the Republican views on drug policies plus the libertarian views Plus the drug cartels and gangs murderous ways, but the Democrats mostly support  the drug cartels and gangs murderous ways in my view.

  The Democrat party’s goals on drug policy appears to be applauding the Republican strong stance on drugs in order to keep them from listening to the reasoning of the libertarians so that they don’t come up with solution that should actually land somewhere between the libertarians general views and the Republicans general fuse the solution is somewhere between their two views and it’s nowhere on the Democrat side. The Democrats like to feed into the fears Republicans have about drug policy and Democrats use lies to do that, plus they encourage silencing speech and acting like the drug policy subject is an offensive subject to talk about candidly and objectively.

1 TAXES  (Libertarian, Republican, Independent or Democrat?)

LIBERTARIAN: I support a fair or flat tax. Equal tax rate percentages for everyone and little to no Corporate taxes.

2 DRUG POLICIES (Libertarian, Republican, Independent, or Democrat?)

INDEPENDENT (Liberty Independent): I believe in legalizing all of God’s medicinal plants and having regulated products that are much safer, and have much lower intoxication potency levels than street forms. I believe in having licensed dealers rather than putting natural but altered medicine forms into extorters, thieves, gangs and cartels hands who enslave people far more than even bad forms of drugs do. (Have safer forms, regulated dealers + still teach abstinence + nutrition and exercise as the preferred health methodology)

3 JUSTICE SYSTEM (Libertarian, Republican Independent or Democrat?) 

INDEPENDENT (Liberty Independent): I have a “love your neighbor” and enforce some of God’s simple universal “Ten Commandments.” The key universal natural laws to enforce are:

(Exodus 20) 1 “Thou shalt not kill” 2 “Thou shalt not steal” 3) “Do not tell lies about people” 4) Do not covet (hustle, swindle or harass people) other people’s property which includes money and do not covet your neighbors husband or wife either. 5) Have laws that oppose being an adulterous nation such as marriage between one man and woman. No laws that support polygamy or same sex marriage – which means that laws would expect a man and woman to be responsible for their own child. Continue the traditional 5 days of business work per week while typically making Saturday and Sunday special days. Have reverence for God and honor Fathers and Mothers.

Basically, as an Independent on the Justice system stuff I land somewhere between Republican and Libertarian general stances.

4 PRISON REFORM (Libertarian, Republican, Independent or Democrat?)

INDEPENDENT (Liberty Independent): I haven’t heard many libertarians views in a while but I recall them being too harsh on prison sentencing, however there for no regulation on drugs so they’re not for sentencing and drug cases but they are too harsh on thieves I believe. I haven’t heard a logical discussion from Republicans Or democrats when it comes to prison reform. Democrats are eager to put people they don’t like in prison and then that seems that they want to let serial killers roam the streets instead of being in prison or being given the death penalty.

  Therefore, when I say I’m independent on this issue it’s because I have a different view of all three of the biggest parties which have you the biggest parties to be Republican Democrat and then libertarian which is really a sector of the Republican Party.

  My basic prison reform views are that thieves should pay people back what they stole no more than seven times the amount and I get that from the Bible. It’s not a theocratic view it’s just that it makes sense. It’s 1 + 1 = 2 somebody takes a -1 from somebody that person who took that minus one should give them a one back and maybe one more for the trouble. And that’s reconciling the person who stole but also reconciling the person who is robbed. The complication and how long somebody should be in jail when it comes to a thief is whether or not there is evidence that they won’t continue repeating the crime but also whether or not they did it violently or were armed when they did the robbery. Those intangibles make it hard to know if it’s really the right time to release somebody from jail but in general they should be let out of jail a lot more quickly if they pay back the people they owe whom they robbed.

  Another part to thieves being expected to pay back who they robbed is that many times insurance companies pay people back for having been robbed or having money robbed from a bank using somebody’s debit card but really the thief should pay that back and if it was such a large amount that they can’t pay it back then the insurance should cover the rest but they’re also basically robbing insurance companies when the insurance companies have to pay back what was stolen. So if the thief is expected to just pay back what they stole from someone then the insurance company much of the time won’t even have to be involved, or would only have to be partially involved and that will help lower insurance rates across the whole country. And insurance workers would end up being more well fed.

  I think prisons should be just like everywhere else we’re supposed to love our neighbor and follow the basic ten commandments in prisons. I disagree with Benjamin Franklin on the issue of jails and prisons. Benjamin Franklin I heard about a long time ago and I can’t say where you have to look it up yourself that he had a philosophy on jails and prisons that people should basically be made uncomfortable there so that they won’t want to go there and some people have adopted that philosophy by taking it to an extreme.

  Nobody’s going to be comfortable on lockdown in prison not fully comfortable. So my view of prison is that being on lockdown is already uncomfortable enough in one nation under God. The reason those who disagree with me should agree with me is for this main point and that’s because we want people coming out of prison more balanced and peaceable than they were before they went in. 

  People in prison should be treated with dignity and a restoration fashion + restoration expectation. Restroom and shower designs should be respectful of people’s privacy, and shower scheduling should be conducive to peoples ability to find some privacy. 

  If you take time to ponder it, there is much more to prison reform than meets the eye. My views on prison reform are not similar to any party views, although Republican views are closest to my views on prison reform. My views are most similar to what Christ’s views indicate. Christ indicates in Matthew 7:12 to treat others the way you would want to be treated if you were the one caught in a fault (Paul explains it in Galatians 6:1). We also have to keep their victims in mind, and get compensation from the perpetrators for their victims when it’s possible. 

NOTE: SOME OF THE ISSUES I COVERED UNDER THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM ALSO FIT TOPICS THAT THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH COVERS AND SOME OF MY NEXT TOPICS ARE STANCES BY PARTIES THAT ARE ALSO COVERED BY THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH BUT THESE ARE TOPICS THAT ARE DEBATED AS SEPARATE TOPICS TO EACH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT AT VARIOUS TIMES.

5 PRO-LIFE OR PRO-ABORTION (Libertarian, Republican, Independent or Democrat?) 

REPUBLICAN: I’m pretty clearly Republican on this issue because I am pro-life and by the way there is no pro-choice it’s either pro-life or pro-abortion think about that. (That was an easy one)

6 LAW ENFORCEMENT (Libertarian, Republican Independent or Democrat?)

INDEPENDENT LIBERTARIAN: I say independent libertarian because libertarians basically don’t want the police involved in anything unless it’s extreme. The libertarian view on law enforcement is to protect our freedoms and give us more freedom and let us resolve most of our problems on our own. I don’t have much problem with the Republican views of policing either it’s just that I’m in between Republican and libertarian on what I think most of our laws should be so as of now the laws aren’t what I think they should be when it comes to drug policy and priorities of how we deal with things. I think that police should address the most violent people in other words people who are known for assault or could be an assault danger who have been repetitively stealing from people, and those should be the main concentrations of police for prevention’s sake.

  So, technically I want the police doing as little as possible except on these two things: theft and seeking out violent offenders and promoting prevention by doing that. I think when it comes to people who lie about other people then those are lawsuit issues a lot of the time and other times it’s for the police to figure out if somebody’s lying about someone and if they are then the liar is the person who should be criminally charged, because lies can steal people’s freedom and can result in assault on the person who is being lied about.

  I think police should always be appreciated for the good things they do on a regular basis which get overlooked because of tougher situations. People need to be reminded that police help out at car wrecks and other tragedies and that part can certainly be appreciated and is needed.

7 IMMIGRATION (Libertarian, Republican, Independent or Democrat?)

INDEPENDENT (Liberty Independent): although I’m similar to Republicans on this issue – I think there should be more focus on improving the legal immigration process and shortening some things, but I’m independent because I want us to be more strict in making people pass a test for the reasons they want to come here, and I think the reasons they should want to come here as for the freedom to study true facts about the evidence of religion, the freedom to question the reality of all religions whether they be true or false religions; people should want to come here and support the freedom of speech and because they believe in free speech and communicating well then they shouldn’t also learn our language and want to learn our language so that we can communicate well.

8 BORDER SECURITY (Libertarian, Republican Independent, or Democrat)

REPUBLICAN: that’s an easy one because I think Libertarians and Republicans and Independents agree that the Border should be highly protected and sealed to keep unidentified people out.

TO BE CONTINUED

9 FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Libertarian, Republican, Independent or Democrat)

INDEPENDENT (Liberty Independent): I land somewhere in between Libertarian and Republican when it comes to foreign affairs. It’s foreign affairs is an issue that an individual leader certainly makes a difference on. I do trust somebody like Marco Rubio and Donald Trump to have innovative ways of working things out with good philosophies that align close to the Republican Party ideals but generally there’s a lot of people in the last few years in Congress and the Republican party that resemble the Democrats too much when it comes to foreign affairs.

  I want to give a little more perspective on foreign affairs. Foreign affairs is kind of complicated because our military is being used to protect countries all over the world but also our intelligence is all over the world because of the capabilities of Air Force in Many Nations to get places quickly so we have to protect America from airline attacks and we have to know what’s going on around the world as far as I understand I’ve been told that somebody who knows a little bit about the military.

  However I do have certain understandings and views that I base my foreign affairs perspective on. For one I support Israel and I believe in being allies and friends with All Nations who are for freedom and freedom to study and contest the validity of religion which is a big part of the freedom of speech.

  I like Rand Paul’s views to a degree of staying out of the affairs of other countries and just taking care of ourselves right here at home. That is the general libertarian view and I agree with that view for the most part but we have to be involved with foreign affairs to a degree nowadays, but I think we’re too involved in many cases such as with Ukraine and Russia. I think we should stop helping other countries with oil to the degree that it’s hurting ourselves. And I believe in doing what we can to help protect oil interests for other countries from terrorist groups trying to take over oil, but we need to have our own oil and that’s going to come under my energy policy stances. We need to have our own oil because we have it here for one thing and we’re just not tapping into it the Democrats are against that so I don’t lean Democrat on that that has something to do with foreign affairs and Not just energy policies. You can’t be the strongest army in the world without oil, and that will always be the case. Because of that oil fits into the foreign affairs issue.

10 ENERGY POLICIES (Libertarian, Republican Independent, or Democrat?)

INDEPENDENT LIBERTARIAN: I must say after pondering this one that I lean Libertarian but it’s Republicans that end up talking the most about energy so, I call myself an independent libertarian because I fall somewhere between libertarian and Republican on this one however, I am libertarian on this and that I think we should get all the energy we can from our own country and not have to deal with other countries as much as possible except for relationships sake but as far as being dependent on other nations for energy I think we should do everything we can to depend on our own energy resources right here at home on this continent.

  To summarize my energy views I think that we should use every resource possible in all the safest ways when it comes to when Mills or wind fans whatever they call those. Those should be somewhere where they’re not killing birds if that’s possible. Frankly I’m not sure that’s the best source of energy it may be one of the worst and president Trump has warned about those fans because they kill animals so I would consider putting them indoors but how do you make them work without electricity I guess I mean how do you create a wind to make the fans work indoors?

  Anyhow I say use all energy possible because when you use a combination of all energy forms available then you aren’t using too much of just one and depleting it too quickly. Some of the sources we use from the earth being depleted too quickly is not good but they do replenish themselves if used at a safe pace in my view which is possible by using multiple forms and by making products to operate more efficiently. (And how about resting some on Saturdays and Sundays – American cultural society already does this and that’s good)

11 ENVIRONMENT (Libertarian, Republican, Independent or Democrat?)

INDEPENDENT (Liberty Independent): Once again I find myself in the independent category here between Republican and libertarian.

NOTE: Before I began this litmus test to objectively measure what party I align with politically, I thought I would probably measure out to be mostly independent or Republican between Republican and Democrat but it turns out that I have no views that are Democrat Party views so far and that I mostly fit into a category that is between Republican and libertarian which is why I call myself independent. I also have noticed that I have more libertarian leaning views than I do Republican but they’re pretty closely related in some philosophies.

  I’ll say a little bit about the environment but not a whole lot. I definitely land on Independent between libertarian and Republican on the environment because Libertarians expect people to take care of their own areas. Republicans have more government involvement which I do agree with having that to be sure we have a government system in place to make sure we have clean water for the most part. There are certain rules you can follow to keep the air clean but in reality how much can we do for our air we can keep trash out of waterways? We don’t do a great job of that I guess but we do a pretty good job of it.

  My view of the Democrat Party on the environment is that they are simply a thief who’s completely perverted the environment and pretends they’re doing all this stuff to help the environment while they use it to regulate and steal people’s property and keep people poor and everything else and it really is just about doing that instead of helping the environment in my view that’s how corrupt the Democrat Party is in my view.

12 ONE NATION UNDER GOD (Libertarian, Republican, Independent, or Democrat?)

INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN: Before I became a registered independent, I was calling myself an independent Republican because I didn’t align myself with Conservative Republican or playing Republican but I did agree with the overall generalizations of Republicans.

  I like the Republican party because they’ve always ended up standing accepting one nation under God.

  What one nation under God means to me in the simplest terms that I think people can understand is that we seek wisdom from God – we don’t reject wisdom from God in our nation’s governing affairs.

  I will always be independent on the issue of one nation under God because I always reevaluate it and we express the study of why we should be that and sometimes the Republican party’s not standing up strongly for that but I personally think that’s our biggest strength and I always technically be independent on this issue because it’s a personal priority to me and so I call myself independent Republican on this issue but if the Republican party ever rejects one nation under God I’m going to be completely independent instead of independent Republican on this issue however I’m already in independent overall but I would still say that I fit in the independent Republican category on this because the Republican has the power to make sure we continue revering God on paper and I guess that’s why I like to say independent Republican because they still have some reverence for that. Right now I think the Republican party is in a good place cuz they have more reverence for God than they’ve ever had at this point but during the Obama years and by the end of the Bush years you had a lot of fake Republicans and they’re trying to push God out we were having to speak God’s name a lot of times and say we need God’s guidance but the Republicans who were in the media were rejecting God at that point but that’s not what the Republican working class wanted they wanted to keep one nation under God and then God We trust at the forefront of our understanding.

As far as Libertarians go on the one nation under God issue I think there tends to be quite a few atheists who accept the libertarian views and they don’t care to have one nation under God and I disagree with that but that’s not all of them Libertarians very and I don’t know what the percentage is of atheists versus those who Revere God and I don’t know that they oppose one nation under God but I’ve heard a few of them not want to talk too much about it when they’re talking politics. However Libertarians do normally respect our flag and national anthems and it is the pledge of allegiance that has one nation under God and they don’t contest that very much I don’t recall any Libertarians contesting one nation under God but I could be wrong.

13 GUN CONTROL (Libertarian, Republican Independent, or Democrat?)

INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN: My view on gun control is that we deal with it by keeping “one nation under God.” I think people should have licensed guns to carry I think they can have guns at home to protect the home and maybe those should be licensed as well. But the second best thing we can do basically is to license people and for people to know that they aren’t supposed to have a gun without a license and can have a gun taken away if it’s not licensed or they could be arrested. And I don’t think the licensing process should be that difficult. In other words I think that maybe should have a safety class and a character test which bottom line if they haven’t been prison for violence or anything then they can probably have a gun. In other words I don’t think it should be that hard to get a gun licensing. But I do think the law should have people expecting police to want to verify if they see somebody with a gun that they do have a license. That should not be a surprise.

Gun control bottom line is best if we have people being taught God’s ten commandments and to love your neighbor as yourself and love God. Whether people believe in God or not His “Love your neighbor” laws represent the conscience they should be taught so they know it is frowned upon to harm anyone with a weapon and that includes knives, sticks, bricks, baseball bats and other things. Patience, forgiveness and other virtues should be taught to folks as well and we derive those principles from the Bible there is honestly no getting around that.

  I will say that perhaps only specially licensed people should be allowed to carry a gun publicly except in their vehicle there should be some leeway to carry guns in your vehicle and that is for hunters purposes and for self-defense but maybe a special license should be necessary to carry one into a store but mostly we want our police armed and security guards and for the sake of the public to maybe have more security guards or police who are in public and armed for our protection.

  If it comes down to me knowing people are carrying a gun in public and not thinking about it in terms of outside of the box – Frankly, there aren’t many many people that trust with a gun, and that includes because some people are clumsy, some people are easily startled, some people always have a chip on their shoulder, and some people simply have a bad temper.

My view of the Democrat Party is that they may actually want terrorists to have guns and nobody else to have guns. That is how terrible and extreme I view Democrat Party to be. That’s actually what they do. The Democrat Party on television has defended people who robbed the store on camera with a baseball bat and been mad at police for trying to detain them. There have been several stories like that where the Democrat Party people in Media and even the Democrat leaders have joined in with that media and defended the robber.

14 GOVERNMENT AIDE (Libertarian, Republican, Independent or Democrat?)

REPUBLICAN / LIBERTY INDEPENDENT: Government help and benefits is definitely one area that I agree with the Republicans on. Do not misconstrue it because Republicans are actually the party who created welfare and other health venues. It is the Democrat Party who has tried to pervert government help and ends up destroying government help venues and corrupting them. I am definitely not libertarian on this issue and I am not in between Republican and independent on this issue the Republicans are the ones that have been the most discerning when it comes to issues of helping people through government venues when necessary. The Libertarians oppose any government help and that’s one area I disagree with Libertarians.

  Why do I think government help is good? Because it’s supposed to be like a recycling system. I do think the free market system that the Republicans created is a very good system one of the best systems known to mankind and all of history, but it can’t survive all by itself. I think that the government benefit packages that we have with Social security disability and other things have helped people who lose jobs to stay on their feet a little bit and not starve to death but also being able to keep some shoes to go back to work with and most the time the government health system helps recycle people back into the workforce. Sure there is a problem with people who cannot as easily return and people worry about those who just don’t want to return to the workforce. There are complications with the rules and that cause people to be stuck getting insurance from health venues and it is more crippling to return to work than it is to be on insurance if somebody’s health is questionable because for the most jobs if somebody goes back to work they can’t miss a day. So people over criticize that type of situation but if somebody gets off the benefits and chances going to work and then they’re out of work again because they missed a few days they lost the job then they should have known they weren’t capable of being consistent and going to work before they tried to re-engage and working for someone else again…

  The point is I understand the system and some of the complications and that’s why I have chosen and realized that I fit in the Republican category when it comes to this issue and I don’t think the Libertarians are right about it and I don’t think Libertarians are right about a few things that’s why I follow mostly independent between Republican and libertarian.

  When it comes to government help venues I do think that the problems with the system would be greatly improved by my drug policy and law enforcement views which I wrote about earlier on in this blog.

  It appears to me that the Democrat Party regularly tries to sabotage the government help venues by using drug laws to enslave people and by working with the drug cartel to kind of hijack government help away from the people who really need it. And when Democrats do that it causes Republicans to question whether the government’s help is worth having and it definitely makes the Libertarians dislike the government help venues because of its poor use of the tax dollar when it’s being sabotaged. However the number of people that have been helped and recycled back into the system is still outnumbers those who have been destroyed by the sabotage of the system and some people in the government help system just end up dying pretty large number of people doing that’s why they were in getting help in the first place because they were dying prematurely.

AS I CONCLUDE THIS LITMUS TEST I just wanted to say that it surprised me a little bit where I landed. I am not that surprised I just hadn’t thought about it and I had aligned myself as independent assuming I’m independent between Republican and Democrat on some things and I might be Republican on most things – that’s what I thought.

  But after taking the test that I created myself I found myself to be libertarian on where things than I am Republican and to be in between Republican and libertarian and I found that I’m not Democrat Party on any issue and I’m not an independent between Republican and Democrat at all either I’m just an independent between Republican and libertarian.

  Although policy-wise I don’t fit between Republican and Democrat anywhere I would say that I’m independent between public and Democrat when arguing some things or showing understanding of some things that don’t fit me.

  But after this litmus test this is how I view the Independent party now and I may come up with another name for two separate independent types:

LIBERTARIAN, LIBERTY INDEPENDENT, REPUBLICAN, MODERATE INDEPENDENT, DEMOCRAT, ANTI-SPEECH DEPENDENT, GREEN PARTY (Communist)

Summary of my litmus test grades:

1 TAXES – Liberty Independent

2 DRUG POLICIES – Liberty Independent

3 JUSTICE SYSTEM – Liberty Independent

4 PRISON REFORM – Liberty Independent

5 PRO-LIFE OR PRO-ABORTION – Republican

6 LAW ENFORCEMENT – Independent Libertarian

7 IMMIGRATION – Liberty Independent

8 BORDER SECURITY – Republican

9 FOREIGN AFFAIRS – Liberty Independent

10 ENERGY POLICIES – Independent Libertarian

11 ENVIRONMENT – Liberty Independent

12 ONE NATION UNDER GOD – Independent Republican

13 GUN CONTROL – Independent Republican

14 GOVERNMENT AIDE – Republican / Liberty Independent

 VERDICT = I measure out as a “Liberty Independent” which is between Republican and Libertarian on my political stance “Litmus Test.”

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