I generally identify as a right-winger, although like most educated people I question the usefulness of the left-right dichotomy. Furthermore, in recent times I've moved to the centre on economic issues.
As such my identification with the political right may well be cultural, rather than political or economic - I would never be caught dead at a lefty protest where they scream and shout and carry on, even if I agreed with the cause in question.
Culturally I'm certainly more conservative than liberal (though very moderate by the standards of countries such as the USA), and indeed my conservatism is much more in the late 19th century tradition of Benjamin Disraeli, rather than a more reactionary liberal-conservatism that again one finds common in the US (although I do lean more Republican than Democrat where US politics are concerned.)
I am a civic nationalist who believes in a strong defence force and strict immigration controls. I reject cultural Marxism, political correctness and social engineering, accepting that while social change is inevitable, it must be the people who lead such change and not forced upon them by government - or judicial activism.
I'm also very much a populist - although again this places me in this weird nether position where I'm not quite left and not quite right, but also not centrist either.
And for the record, I abhor socialism.
