Leftists, what's your favourite right-wing policy? Rightists, what's your favourite of the left?

1. I'm fairly right-of-center. I'd say the biggest policy preference of the left's I admire is the focus on protecting the environment rather than corporate profits. Ensuring we have a healthy economy with plenty of jobs is all well and good, but at the end of the day we have to live on this planet, and the market doesn't do a great job at promoting eco-friendly business practices. I'm baffled by people who willfully ignore the damage we do to Earth's ecosystem or wave it away as a natural consequence of our existence. And to be clear, I'm talking about more than just climate change here. Filling our oceans with plastic and our rivers with toxic sludge is disgusting, and seeing our waste in nature angers me at a deep level. I think Republicans in the U.S. need to remember Teddy Roosevelt's ideas about land stewardship and environmentalism. There's nothing "conservative" about killing off entire species, poisoning our water supply and destroying natural environments for the sake of short-term profit.
   — ThaYoungPenguin


2. I'm liberal but I think our welfare system needs major reform after working for a company that employs a lot of low income workers for the last few years. You hit a point where for every dollar you earn, you lose 2 dollars in benefits. So you have to turn down extra shifts, turn down promotions and make management think you're just a lazy bum who wants to leech off their tax dollars. I really can't blame them though, I wouldn't pay to go to work either. The point should be to help people lift themselves out of poverty, not bribe them to stay poor.
   — ElToberino


3. Decriminalization of cannabis. I don't smoke, so I wouldn't benefit personally. We spend *way* too much money on the "drug war" fighting a plant people can grow in their backyard. Legalization in a few states has already shown that communities won't descend into "reefer madness". We ought to focus our efforts on the real problem drugs, e.g. opioids and heroin.
   — mwatwe01






4. I'm a religious conservative but I actually support gay marriage. You do you man it's not my place to judge.
   — Straight_Ace


5. I'm middle-right. I'm against the death penalty. It's not a deterrent, it's unevenly applied toward men and minorities and says to the public that some people are irredeemable. TBF, *some* people need to be locked up forever. Overall, the criminal justice system needs a massive overhaul. Starting with proper funding of indigent and public defender offices.
   — AudibleNod


6. I can’t deny that free public education is important, despite its flaws
   — papa-dragon77






7. I am a Leftist fan of fiscal responsibility (city council will do that to you real damn fast) and it makes me sad that we don't even get that from the Right, just sort of a magic show of trivial spending cuts paired with enormous budget increases.
   — GordFreemanSemenDemo


8. Im pretty right wing - but there are a couple of things I think the right can improve on - Stop denying global warming, its literally impossible to be proven anymore than it has been. Even if it is a big hoax, whats wrong with just cleaning up after ourselves, CO2 has no positive benefit whatsoever. - CEO Bonuses are obscene, im an accountant and see companies give millions of dollars in bonuses for companies even when the company loses money. Toys R Us is going bankrupt and the board are still getting bonuses. At What point is a bonus no longer justifiable?
   — upthebannana


9. The left has a bit of an anti-science wing that I cannot stand. I'm as liberal as they come, but it pisses me off that many liberals/left-leaning types (including Greenpeace) are against GMOs. We literally have the technology to end world hunger, and misguided activists who probably haven't ever experienced food insecurity keep blocking it because they legitimately don't understand science. Also, "organic" is a meaningless label that doesn't even really have a definition and isn't proven to be any healthier for you...but it does sell for more of my money. Argh. Edit: to be clear, when I say "against," I mean advocating for an outright ban (I'm aware of the possible environmental implications, but there isn't any evidence of adverse health effects). Greenpeace's policy of destroying GMO test fields came to mind. I know this isn't limited to the left, but the vast majority of my friends who are anti-GMO or believe GMOs cause cancer are overwhelmingly leftist-hippie types (then again, I went to college with a lot of left-leaning hippie students, so perhaps that's my bias as a left-winger myself...).
   — MiniPlesiosaur