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Colin Kaepernick

American football player and activist

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The NFL quarterback who knelt during the national anthem in 2016 to protest police violence and racial injustice, sparking a national debate.

Colin Kaepernick sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly anti-establishment on institutions, strongly progressive on culture and leaning state-led on economy. The profile is close to the middle on religion.

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Where Colin Kaepernick sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyLeaning state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologySlightly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionCentered on religion
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Colin Kaepernick

Radical democracyWants more direct participation in decisions, through assemblies, referendums and…98%MutualismA market-based anarchism in which workers and small producers trade fairly through…98%Utopian socialismImagines planned model communities built on cooperation, an approach that predates…97%Critical theoryExamines how power, class, race and gender shape institutions and ideas, and aims to…97%

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