The basis of my political views are that the means of production fundamentally belong in public ownership, and also have a profound belief in the importance of trade unions and the advantages of syndicalism in some areas of the economy (like the finance industry, surprisingly). At the very least, "means of production" in the modern age should encompass all utilities, public transport, telecom/internet backbone etc. Anything that is a natural monopoly should be in public ownership, at the very least, and that free markets in any particular sector is a dispensation that should last only so long as it benefits society, not as an end in itself.
I add the liberal tag to my socialism in that I believe it's undoubtedly true that some goods and services are better delivered by the private sector; I don't think the public sector needs to get involved in building smartphones or running supermarkets. And I'm liberal insofar as I believe people should be able to do what they want viz. drugs, prostitution... when it comes to your own body, other people should not be able to tell you what to do.
I'm small-c conservative descriptor to my liberal-socialism in the sense that I'm strongly patriotic, I believe our institutions have served us well in many ways, that the Anglo-American civilisation has thrived by adhering to the rule of law and representative democratic principles. Not to be too jingoistic, but I believe it's demonstrably true that the Anglo-American civilisation is the most superior one currently in existence (except possibly the Scandinavian civilisation; they are also quite advanced).
Are these various political ideas a sign of indecision, or is it that I've broken free of the shackles of ideology and I've lived long enough and read widely enough to get a sense of what I like, of what works, and take a bit from each ideological genus?