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What are some lesser-known, lesser-discussed political positions you either support or oppose? For example, I don't support mandatory minimum sentencing laws, and I believe companies should not be allowed to require arbitration clauses (only optional).

I personally think that rape having a statute of limitations is highly problematic, even obscene, though I recognize that it would in many cases be largely symbolic to eliminate that statute of limitations. Few would expect there to be clear evidence of a rape after, say, 50 years.

Nevertheless, by keeping a statute of limitations, a person would be within their rights to interpret it this way: that the deep harm done to them, for some a fate arguably worse than death itself, cannot be legally addressed after a certain amount of time because it is not quite so heinous as a crime like murder.

I think we need serious reform on regulation of small farms. Kinda biased on this one as I grew up on one, but the impact arbitrary and senseless beaurocracy has on the economic viablility of small farms is huge. Basically, selling any kind of food directly to customers should be basically unregulated and require nothing more than a simple health inspection, if that. Selling wholesale should reasonably be a little more regulated, but we still need to overhaul the laws which require that every prossessing building have its own septic tank with seperate bathrooms for men and women, etc, things designed for large factory farms.

Generally, the issue of funding of the government and arbitrary projects it chooses to distribute money to. Funding packages are approved as a bundle, and if you look inside, you see absurd things that lawmakers sneak in -- research to prove that children who grow up in broken homes commit more crimes, how potatos don't grow if you don't water them, bridges over land in unpopulated areas, etc. And funding of foreign states for being 'military partners', or for no reason at all.

My hot takes: corporations are not persons, it should be illegal for companies to own other companies, and there should be a cap on how much residen real estate someone can own.

I'll throw a few out there. It's hard to know what's 'lesser known' or 'lesser supported' anywhere... the internet is a big place. At least the feds can have a laugh when they find this discussion.

1. Omnibus bills should be disqualified by policy at state and federal levels. Let each proposed solution to a perceived problem stand on its own. Legislative bodies should be incentivized towards more deliberation, rather than activist grandstanding (on either side).

2. Quite a few regulations should be handled at a more local level, which increases both efficiency and citizen agency. For example, the citizens of Chicago might have vastly different solutions to transportation issues than southern rural Illinois, so there isn't a 'one size fits all' solution that works here. Let the city and the counties decide differently

unpopular #3: a lot of ideologies should be classified as religions, and treated as such with relation to their involvement in public affairs. This would provide both freedom-of-speech protections, yet also identify them as non-neutral on certain questions, which would disqualify them from using public funds to propagate a fringe ideology.

4. Digital platforms/programs that have addictive qualities need significant consumer labelling overhauls, similar to the way that carcinogens or potentially harmful substances are labelled. Someone should have warned me that there was a billion dollar industry pointed at my brain stem to keep me hooked on XYZ platform or playing XYZ game. Informed consent matters for medicine and food, why not cognitive health?

5. Election day should be a federal holiday, and employers shall not hinder a citizen from reasonable access to their polling place, even by punitive action or chilling effect.

Eliminate corporate personhood. That would immideately make big businesses impossible, leveling all fields and making _people_ responsible for their actions.

Hold elected officials to a much higher standard. Misusing public positions for personal gain should be treatd as treason.

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