This thread's OP is a bit lazy so usually I'd make a lazy ass joke myself but I figure at some juncture it'd be useful to answer this so I can be at least somewhat clear on what I think.
In no sense am I ever going to be able to describe the breadth of my politics in a Smogon post, it'd require a lot more effort than I'm willing to put in here, and speaking bluntly, I don't think the audience by and large is capable of engaging where I'd like to for a huge majority of things, so it feels largely fruitless, sans a few specific individuals that I enjoy reading the posts of whenever they crop up (shoutouts
Myzozoa )
Uh, quite bizarrely, I guess, I draw most of my moral reckoning from a combination of the obvious existentialists and lean heavily into the world of the absurd, but Tolstoy's writings play a big part in who I feel I am, particularly his views on the culpability of the individual in the role of history that he espouses in his first ludicrous departure from the narrative structure of War and Peace.
Wrapping this all up, to be straight, I think I, individually, am free to define what is good and what is bad and there is no inconsistency that I am held to, and then I tend to enjoy what I suppose people would call revolutionary or radical leftist political ideologies from there, or extremely flat distributions of power. I'm as of yet unsure which particular strain of leftist thought resonates most with me, though I think Che's lifelong, almost religious-like devotion to revolution speaks to me emotionally to some extent.
I am wildly pessimistic that there is progress on the table within my lifetime at this juncture, truthfully, and I waver back and forth between this pessimism and a faint optimism from time to time. I find talking to conservatives an impossible, not a difficult, task. It is, to me, like explaining the internet to an ant - you may be an eloquent, well spoken, well reasoned individual, but at some juncture you are being asked to complete a challenge that is not completable (whether it be due to lack of logical facilities on their end or active disingenuousness).
In American "politics", on the ground, the two biggest issues that I find myself concerned with (though these stem from the same root cause) are most commonly access to health care and the plight of unhoused people. To make my positions clear I think we should give health care to everyone and gives home to those that do not have them.
