I am a Liberal Democrat.
Liberal is NOT the same as radical Left. I am NOT a fan or supporter of AOC or Bernie Sanders (who is NOT a Democrat, but caucuses with them).
Free College for all?
Free public college tuition for all. why shouldn’t today’s have the advantage that my parents got with free tuition at CCNY and Hunter College in the 1930s? Connecticut grants free community college to every instate High School graduate effective with the class of 2020.
If you want private higher education, to live on campus, etc. You pay for the costs above tuition.
More taxes? Not more taxes, but higher. I’d eliminate the tax cuts that Trump pushed through Congress that benefited the wealthy and hurt the lower and middle classes. I’d keep increasing sin taxes on tobacco. This might price people out of smoking, cut disease and death and the public burden of caring for it’s victims.
Open borders, NO. Make visas easier to get for relatives of those already here and true refugees. How many families/ancestors of CR members git in because they had a relative who had come first and/or were refugees of Pogroms or the shoah?
Everyone white automatically racist? NO, but many are. There is systemic racism in bith our police departments and housing regulations, Out town’s police have been sanctioned by the state for its racism. 3-5 acre minimum zoning in the suburbs keeps out both Blacks and frum Jews.
Are policemen bigoted? No more than the rest of society, but they have guns, use force and can intimidate those they loathe.
Pro-Abortion, NO. Pro-choice is NOT the same as pro-abortion. As an adoptive parent I wouldn’t have my youngest if her birth mother aborted the fetus. That said, It is not my right to enforce my views on a woman who is pregnant. It is between the woman. the father-to-be and her doctor. A woman who is pregnant by rape or incest or actually a non-consenting minor should not be forced by the state to carry a pregnancy to term. That is Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
Anti-Second Amendment? No, but I favor stronger gun laws, education, testing, etc. Personally I have no problem with those who belong to the National Guard (our well regulated militia) bearing arms. Would I own a gun, NO. Would I permit a guest to bring one into my home or office, also no.
Iran Nuclear Deal, needs work. Poorly enforced in the past, but better than what we have now,