What is your political ideology? EDITED

[theVOID]

The American cult of individualism bothers me.

This is what happens when you set up some colonies in another continent and then dump all your misfits, malcontents and religious nuts into it as a way of getting rid of them.

Pardon?

Australia was founded by convicts.To this day we have a healthy contempt of authority. However, our form of democracy emphasises equality rather than individualism.

I understand but reject Libertarianism as I do all ideologies.I think the premise of the desirability of a laissez fare economy is as flawed and romantic as Marxism in the unfounded assumptions it makes about human behaviour.

Except nobody expects a 'Libertarianish' state to be all roses like they do with communism, we just expect the government to waste much less of the precious few resources we have - Government spending is inherently wasteful, stupid laws like anti-drug laws cost far far more than they ever benefit us, regulations often do more harm than good - especially when they are specifically tailored to change the direction in which the market is growing, bailing out failing businesses has to stop, Welfare and social security should only be for the destitute poor and those who have the ability to work should do so or starve, those who have money in their old age should be required to spend it all before receiving a cent of state support, and that would be quite easily achieved if the governments and reserve banks around the world didn't keep marching on under this illusion that inflation is a good thing - Inflation is the bane of savings, a whole lifetime of fiscal responsibility can be thwarted by an ever decreasing value on the individual dollar as the money supply is expanded - As far as the rest is concerned, such as public education, i'm generally against but think that a case-by-case basis needs to be established for what services of this nature are truly something that benefits from being socialised.