My values
Summary
"Assess and address these challenges head-on, fearlessly but compassionately"
- Some Guy on LinkedIn
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I believe in, first, seeing a person in front of you as a fellow human being.
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I believe in, then, seeing the person in front of you as a fellow human being who also has problems.
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I believe in, finally, seeing the person in front of you as a fellow human being, who also has problems, which I may be able to help address through a little compassion, communication, and elbow grease.
personal & Professional
Kindness
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Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Do onto others as you shall have done onto you. Put your best foot forward, patiently, and help others where they have a need for it. Give to others generously, authentically, and compassionately.
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Integrity​
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Hold yourself accountable for your faults and to what you preach, seeking to grow as a person in the direction of moral good. Stand up for what you believe in, and do so unabashedly with honor. Speak truth with respect where it needs to be spoken, and act with humility when you are proven to be mistaken. Treat people fairly, and find fault in the act of misleading, or taking advantage of those the lesser fortunate.
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Communication​
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Speak openly, proactively, and respectfully to others. Seek help when you need it, and listen actively even when you don't.
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Open-Mindedness​
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Remain humble, not ignorant. Seek to learn. Seek to educate. Expand your breadth of knowledge, no matter where it may come from, or how adversely you may feel to its source.
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Togetherness​
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"Apes together... strong." Two heads is better than one. More hands are better than two. Seek to lift each other up. Seek to reach goals as a collective, leaving nobody behind.
~ Memories ~
Some Civil Movements
I Support!
THE BREAKDOWN:​​​​​​​
If you seek to understand why I believe in what I believe in, all of my positions, personally, and politically, can be boiled down to these three, summary statements.
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I support equal human rights and civil rights for all.
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I support the mutual happiness of all living beings.
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I do not support the dehumanization, harm, or oppression of fellow human beings.
I hold myself to an incredibly high standard in keeping an open mind to perspectives different than my own, and always remaining respectful in my conduct as it relates to my own views of the world and people I interact with in my day-to-day life.
I refuse to force my beliefs onto others around me, and I refuse to see people as "other" to myself as fellow human beings. I believe we can all learn from each other, and by having open minds, and open hearts, we can reach one another in ways previously thought impossible.
Feminism & LGBTQ+ Rights
Position: Pro Human Rights / Pro Equal Rights​​​​​​
I support equal human and civil rights for all. - In the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the founding father declared in voice that "All men are created equal." ​- The U.S. Constitution made further progress, with its 14th Amendment coming to state that no state shall "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws" - All people should be seen and treated as equal to one another, with equal importance and value in the eyes of our nation, able to make their own choices on belief, love, and body with autonomy, free of persecution and oppression. It is a true aspiration our nation has a historical record of pursuing, to create a land of equals... and I believe it is our duty as its citizens to further that pursuit. - I believe the world can always be a little brighter with a little more kindness, and treating one another as equals is a fundamental way to work toward achieving that very attainable dream.
Healthcare Reform
Position: Pro Healthcare​ Reform​​​
I view healthcare as a human right and a foundational pillar of our communities. - As a community, and a people, we ought to do what is morally positive and take care of one another, showing love to our neighbors and their loved ones in addition to our own. Ensuring we all have accessible and affordable healthcare is a portion of that, aiding us at our lowest points when we are sick and we are injured. - All drug prices should be negotiated. Profiting off of the sick, injured, and elderly by withholding care is wrong. We should be helping people, not taking advantage of them. - Additionally, 'for profit' corporations should be legally barred from buying non-profit care facilities. Corporations interfering with doctors' and caregivers' work to increase profit margins is wrong.
Workers' welfare Expansion
Position: Pro Union / Pro Wage Reform
"Unions: the folks that brought you the weekend [and minimum wage]."​​ ​ - Unions, historically, were instrumental in shaping pivotal American industries such as manufacturing, transportation, and the trades. They're integral in entities like our public school systems. With a simple google search, one can immediately see how unions help them personally as citizens. They "work to improve working conditions, secure fair wages, and protect workers' rights through collective bargaining." None of this is disadvantageous to anyone except the individuals at the very top, as it hinders their personal greed at the behest of those who seek to elevate themselves from the bottom, the middle, and everything in-between. I support the expansion of Unions' support because it is leads to better lives for our neighbors, both seen and unseen around the nation. - I'm a strong believer in workman's rights: motions such as paid family leave, which polls nationally nonpartisan at 75%. - I'm a strong advocate of amending how minimum wage as decided upon, as opposed to arbitrarily increasing it, in order it with a more fruit-bearing, "livable wage," which would be different county to county, and set at the average cost of living per state, meaning the average collective sum of insurance, groceries, taxes, housing, utilities, etcetera... taken every single year or every two years, which will fundamentally force the conversation to be productive, and timely, keeping up with national trends such as inflation and economic wellbeing, and allowing for more general stability among the populations of every state within the United States regardless of their state's individual circumstances.
Public Education Expansion
Position: Pro Public Education
A stronger, better funded public education system is argued to help drive a healthier, happier, and more harmonious, economically secure society. Not only is public education said have a direct correlative relationship with positive societal outcomes like lowering crime rates and healthcare costs through means of a more rounded, skillful workforce, but it also promotes increased levels of general happiness among the populous. It accomplishes this by creating a more informed populous in terms of maintaining 'public health,' and how to improve it through one's own hygienical actions, but also in terms of better manifesting social cohesion, the idea of a comfortably melded society including many different peoples and cultures. Public schools teach valuable lessons and life skills in interacting with people one may not personally have previous experience with, or understanding of. It allows for exposure and experiences of many different manners of life, and how one can positively impact the world around themself. On a societal level, this leads to less assumptions and stereotypes governing interactions. It leads to stronger navigation of professional workplaces and public spaces, as well as more personal interactions at home, with friends, neighbors, and loved ones. Finally, public education offers its participants a more expanded perspective and understanding of the manners in which they are locally and federally governed, growing a more historically and politically informed populous, less likely to fall for high level gaslights and destructive propaganda, gaining higher critical thinking abilities, all in all leading to, in summary, a more civically engaged population, which is always a positive. All of these things in mind, I am a huge advocate for increasing our funding and supplies for our public schools, in addition to increasing the pay and support for our everyday heroes, the teachers, who do the honorable job, itself.
Clean Energy Production
Position: Pro Clean Energy / Pro Renewable Energy
Clean, renewable energy is the future of energy production. It's also, in fact, cheaper to maintain, and healthier for the general public compared to existing alternatives. Solar, wind, and hydro power allow for cleaner air and water quality for our local communities. They do not lead to health complications or sickness through exposure, and do not pose unnecessary dangers to the individuals who perform work in their immediate vicinities in cases of natural disasters or infrastructural complications. Personally, most prefer things to be clean and healthy over dirty. They prefer consistent over limited. Further, many prefer smiling when they drink water or inhale a fresh seasonal breeze. I know I do. Existing, depleting alternatives maintain a statis quo of compromising on those things we often take for granted. I'm an advocate for our communities health and wellbeing, their strength and prosperity. The world is moving in the positive direction of making the world and its people, its environments, cleaner by virtue of its new age methods of energy production. We will either be in front of competitors in a new industry, and in alignment with our allies, our fellow people of the human race, or we will be behind. Even worse, we may not only be behind, but regressing in the negative direction, going backwards, an widening that gap of economic opportunity through the new age energy procuration, hurting our own people in the process. There's only one answer: forward.
Immigration Reform
Position: Pro Immigration Reform
I'm an advocate for two things being true at the same time, keeping our nation safe, and increasing funding and support for accessibility and operational expansion of legal pathways to citizenship. It is undoubtedly incredibly important to have proper border security, keeping our citizens safe from nefarious forces like those who traffic drugs, illegal firearms, and human beings, in addition to enforcing the proper, legal transitioning of people from one country into another, be it as visitors, or dreamers hoping for a better life. At the same time, two things can, and in this case, ought, to be true at the same time. It's long been known that our immigration system, the facilitation process of immigrants becoming citizens, needs more support, monetarily, in personnel expansion, and in opportunities for improvements through procedural reform. On the topic of immigration, I support both of these objectives, and believe they should be jointly pursued both efficiently, and more importantly, morally, to continue our country's longstanding founding vision of being a nation for all peoples. Also to note: increased legal immigration will increase the nation's economic potential and growth by the very nature of the process, increasing the size of its population of contributors and customer/consumers.
Tax Reform
Position: Pro Middle and Working Class
I believe in positioning our tax policies to prop up those less fortunate than ourselves. People who can help, should be, and those who cannot in a present moment should be aiming to elevate themselves so that they one day can. There is evidence that increases in economic security and stability are in part caused by favoring the middle and working classes over the wealthy and corporations in tax policy. Reforming tax policy should aim to fund public investments and reduce financial inequality and hardship in the general public. Closing tax policy loopholes for the 1% and corporations will shift tax policy to work toward benefitting citizens in each tax bracket equally and equitably. Implementing a small tax on financial transactions such as stocks in addition to higher marginal tax rates on wealthier-income individuals can also generate new sources of revenue for infrastructure and social programs, generally lessening risky financial behavioral patterns, and leading to a fairer overall economy for all.
Voting Reform
Position: Pro 'Independent Commissions
I'm an advocate for local, state, and national voting lines as well as voting processes being drawn, organized, and hosted by independent commissions. As a result of gerrymandering being leveraged in numerous states by lawmakers on both sides of the isle, voters have systematically been disenfranchised, and their voices have been neutered. Gerrymandering has allowed for representatives to pick their voters, as opposed to voters picking their representatives, maintaining security over their seats not by popular opinion, but workarounds by virtue of redistricting to delude support for oppositional candidates. Voting must always be secure, free of tampering by hands or programing code. It must also be free, fair, and accessible for citizens to participate in. Security can always be improved, and be in a manner that doesn't harm or restrict citizens' voices in the process. Voting lines, however, should remain mathematical, not politically partial, to ensure that everyone's voices, no matter their party, position, or creed, can be heard and counted in our nation's many elections.
Support Our Troops <3
Position: Pro Service Members
I support our troops, their safety, benefits, wellbeing, living conditions, and wages! All too often our military servicemen and women come home to a nation that does not properly support them. They go homeless, suffer from mental anguish driven by illnesses like untreated PTSD, and the VA lacks funding to support them all. Further, they are not paid enough to be putting their lives in harms way for our nation and its children. I am in favor of increasing resources and funding to all of these veteran and active-service related entities by reallocating monetary assets typically used in excess of unnecessary defense contracts in the proper direction... the direction of our troops themselves. I am not in favor of our taxpayer dollars for our defense budget being used to pad pockets of defense contractors who seek nothing more than for more violence and more wars, profiting off of the literal blood of these very same military service people. I believe this is a cause we can all get behind. We should all support the men and women who volunteer to serve and protect, not those who seek to utilize leverage for excessive, personal, material gains. I advocate for our service members' betterment both during their time in the service, and in their lives that come afterwards.
Money Out of Politics
Position: Pro Money Out of Politics
I'm an advocate for the creation of laws that ban insider trading, enforce the proper registering of foreign lobbies, and ban the practice of donor lobbying on behalf of corporations and corporate interests. Currently in our nation, one can google "AIPAC Tracker" and it will shows in plain sight tens, at times hundreds of thousands of dollars that are leveraged to legally bribe our politicians on behalf of a foreign government. Similar practices take place through various myriads of PACs and SuperPACs on behalf of multi-million dollar drug companies, oil companies, and many more, who seek to leverage political bribery as a means of getting laws enacted, and tax policies reformed, which will directly benefit their own interests over the interests of the American people. I believe this practice needs to be stopped, because it hurts our families, our neighbors, our livelihoods, and our general wellbeing, our day-to-day life. Our political representatives are representatives of the people, impartial to background or beliefs. Unfortunately, however, currently, that system is manipulated by bribery in favor of moneyed interests to not function as intended. I'm a supporter of changing that practice in order to equally represent and benefit us all, as it was originally designed.