I prefer not just to think outside the box, but to make my own box. I don't like labels: Right, Left, Liberal, Conservative etc. I *do* like people who think and can defend their position. Values: honesty; integrity; respect for others, even those you disagree with; tolerance; ideas and action instead of blind reaction and dominance through force. My novels show all this too and require readers as intellectual as the main characters.
Lately, I have been taking courses at the Henry George School of Social Science. "Tax the land, not the results of human production such as wages or capital."