Supporting a political party is like supporting a sports team. Even if you limited your concern to just 20 different political issues, each with 3 possible stances. That makes a combinatorics permutation with repetition problem, with $20^3$ i.e. $8000$ possible solutions. The likelihood of your alignment with any political party simultaneously on all of those issues is effectively $0$. So debating which team to support is only useful as far as you are deciding how to temporarily compromise when you are asked to vote. Lifetime political party affiliation is just an advertisement for your own intellectual failure.

Political Issues are all Dials to be Set

I see each political issues not as binary decision, but as spectrum. They can be thought of as dials which can be too low or too high at any given moment in time. Your political position is actually defined by what you think needs to happen to those dials at any given moment. Do we need free-speech or moderation, rights or responsibility, regulation or liberalization? Each of these dials, have a difference response when applied to a different scope: location, time-frame, topic.

This is why it makes no sense to critise people for taking different stances at different moments in history. It is not ‘flip-flopping’ to adjust your dials dependent on the world around you. The pendulum swings to and fro for good reason.

How would I set the dials?

  • Prioritise market competition over wealth redistribution
  • Prioritise facts over feelings
  • Prioritise actions over words
  • Prioritise responsibility over rights
  • Prioritise the scientific method over scientific establishment
  • Reprioritise unseen, secondary and long-term consequences

A good way to increase our productivity and generally the critical problems across the western world of crippled infrastructure would be to break the oligopolies. Big and comfortable corporations eventually decay, but retain their market share due to a lack of market competitiveness. We have to acknowledge the natural life-cycle of corporations if we are ever to achieve innovation and efficiency again.

Secondly, the western elite universally prioritizes empathy over rationality. It is enough to smear someone as ‘unsafe’ or ‘discriminatory’ without every having to address legitimate arguments. This tactic stops most reasonable people from ever speaking out against social justice insanity because its simply not worth speaking the truth. We have to grant an equal weight to unseen, secondary and long-term effects, rather than cowing to the whims of the most vocal, self-victimising offense-takers.