I believe that Jesus would be identified as a Left-Libertarian or Social-Anarchist based on His teachings, opinion of the ruling classes, non-participation in politics, care for the poor, down trodden, and forgotten. Then I consider the practices of the Apostles who walked with Him. They formed radically independent private communal communities (churches), that believed in teaching, sharing all possessions, equality, and care for the poor, widows, and orphans.
Based on this, Jesus would more likely identify with the egalitarianism and social concern of the left, while being suspicious of their statism and corporatism, and would condemn them regarding their support for abortion and gay marriage.
Jesus would no doubt condemn the right for their nationalism, pride, racism, greed, aggregated wealth, and willingness to deny the poor, elderly, sick, minorities, workers, and aliens any public support or provision. He would also condemn their public religious grandstanding and moralist chest beating, with which they gain support for policies of war, brazen corporatism, and oppression.
Jesus would be forming private, self-governing, independent, pacifist, communities, wherein members lived together, studied Scripture, shared their lives and all possessions, cared for one another's needs, and strive to be radically separate from the government and religious institutions.
The government would call them, "communes". Religious institutions would call them "cults".
Jesus would call them, "churches".
God knows that most institutional churches would condemn Him, arguing that He was forming cults. I can see these communities believing in the following as it relates to their politics:
- Believe that all human governments are coercive and under the authority of Satan.
- Believe that the Christian is a sovereign citizen of The Kingdom of God.
- Oppose church incorporation or entanglement with the state.
- Oppose state minister's licensing.
- Oppose state marriage licensing and "civil marriage".
- Oppose voting.
- Oppose all forms of state coercion.
- Oppose war and violence.
- Oppose taking oaths and testifying in court.
- Oppose partisan politics in the church in that they are divisive.
- Oppose the notion that earthly civil governments can be "Christianized".
- Tolerate and abide by civil laws in a given society that are based on safety and the common good.
- Oppose civil laws that violate faith in Christ, Christian practice, and Christian conviction through peaceful non-compliance.
- Oppose violent revolution.
- Oppose pledging allegiance to any flag, icon, or earthly nation state.
- Oppose institutionalized discrimination in all forms.
- Oppose institutionalized church hierarchy.
- Radically affirm the separation of church and state.
- Prefer to meet in small groups like house churches and support house church networks.
- Believe that the core of Christian teaching is loving God and loving one's neighbor.
- Believe that marriage and family should be "self-governing" and unentangled with the state or the courts of the unbelievers.
- Advocate for private home schooling and Christian educational/vocational cooperatives.
- Believe that intentional community is the manifest spiritual Kingdom of God.
- Believe in sharing their lives, possessions, and resources for the common good of their Christian community.
- Believe in creation care and living in harmony with nature.
- Believe in divine healing and promote methods of natural healing through natural medicines, herbal remedies, and diet.
- Believe in voluntaryism, mutualism, and the non-aggression principle in all human associations.
In short, these Christians would seek to minimize, or eliminate, any entanglements with all earthly states or governments. Each Christian would be challenged to wage this "one person revolution" against this worldly system in order that they might experience the fullness of the Kingdom of God in their daily lives.
They would certainly be seen as a threat by most civil governments and institutional religious bodies.
