How would you describe my political persuasion?

[George S]

You look like a "populist." That was the faction taking control of the Democratic-Republican Party around 1830 when the liberal Whig Party formed from those leaving that party. The populists changed its name to just Democratic Party.

Populists are a rural form of todays urban progressives. Progressives were in the Republican Party a century ago when populists still held the Democratic Party.

When the progressives began taking control of the Democratic Party the populists were shuffled aside and have either moved to the Republican Party with the conservatives and true liberals there or wander confused like you do in the Democratic Party.

Below are accurate definitions. Today in the US most progressives and some socialists fraudulently call themselves "liberal."

True liberalism advocates: individual freedom, weak government, and free markets. Progressives advocate: social concern, omniscient government, and controlled markets. Socialism advocates: social responsibility, omnipresent government, and collective markets. Conservatism advocates: moral responsibility, strong government, and protected markets ("neo-cons" with international businesses have adopted freer market policies).