Political Typology - Navneet Pathak

Hello, my name is Navneet and I'm a senior high school student at Summit Rainer. This blog will be a space to give my insights into the political wireframe of America and my views. It will be a place for my peers to gain another perspective on politics. In this post, I will be discussing my political typology and political beliefs.

Some background on my political beliefs; My parents are immigrants from India and are both liberals in terms of political typology. As a result, I was raised to be a democratic liberal for most of my early life. Around the beginning of the 2016 election, in around 2015, I finally began to address the topic of politics and began to do my own research on my own views. I was surprised to find many of my own views actually aligned with many of the republican candidates and I started to lean conservative.

My political typology is core conservative. In regards to government, I believe in smaller government. I believe this because I think government regulates too many sectors of the economy and society. My beliefs are based on research and informing myself.

Most core conservatives believe in smaller government, lower taxes, are skeptics of the social safety net, and are divided on whether immigrants help or burden the country. They are also positive towards the current state of America and believe it stands above other countries of the world. I agree and align with all these viewpoints. The one major way I differ from my fellow core conservatives is I support environmental regulation. In regards to immigration however, I believe legal immigrants do help this country, whereas I am against and fully oppose illegal immigration.