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(1) the Realist Left supports full employment, Keynesian macroeconomic policies and management of our economies, a high-wage economy, industrial policy, managed trade in the national interest, a humane welfare state, and an end to offshoring of manufacturing and service jobs to the Third World.
(2) Realist Left politics supports reasonable and sensible civil and equity women’s rights and gay rights, but not cultural leftist identity politics or endless cults of victimology, and the bizarre conspiracy theories that blame all our problems on the capitalist, white-male, heterosexual patriarchy and universal “institutional racism.”
(3) the Realist Left is critical of Third Wave Feminism.
(4) the Realist Left rejects extreme social constructivism and the “blank slate” view of human beings.
(5) the Realist Left defends free speech and freedom of expression from cultural leftist and politically correct witch hunts and restrictions.
(6) the Realist Left is anti-imperialist and largely
non-interventionist on foreign policy, but not isolationist.
(7) the Realist Left is pro-nuclear family and – at the very least – open to serious and rational discussion of the breakdown of the nuclear family in the Western world, and what harm this may have done to our societies, but with humane policies free from right-wing viciousness or free market economics.
(8) the Realist Left recognises that most people have a normal and natural wish to preserve their nations as homelands for their majority culture and their people. Low-level immigration and reasonable refugee quotas are fine, as long as minorities actually do remain a minority of the population, and people who wish to stay assimilate and do not bring hostile and incompatible cultures.
(9) the Realist Left opposes regressive and illiberal Islamism, and promotes the assimilation of immigrants in the West.