Left-Liberals prefer self-government in personal matters and central decision-making on economics. They want government to serve the disadvantaged in the name of fairness. Leftists tolerate social diversity, but work for economic equality.
The red dot on the chart shows where you fit on the political map.
Your Personal Self-Government Score is 70%.
Your Economic Self-Government Score is 20%.
This quiz was like two seconds long, so I don't know how the hell it managed to gage me so much better than the huge quiz I took at another site, but it's really dead on. The other site said that I was more Socialist than anything else, which isn't accurate. It also had yucky questions that mostly didn't offer the options I prefer.
Go here to take the good quiz: http://www.self-gov.org/quiz/
I wish I were more like...politically minded or whatever. I want to have a say in the caucus tomorrow, but I neglected to remember that I needed to *register to vote* in my new county. I suppose I could just sneak in my two cents within my old precinct, but I don't really feel comfortable doing that. My friend Megan sent me a great email on why she loves Dean, and since I don't like Kerry and he's the front runner right now I was verrry interested in what she had to say. I really liked her email and it made me favor Dean, but then I read some more things about him online and I was less comfortable with him (don't hate me, Megan!). His inconsistencies on certain issues, and even his behavioral inconsistencies concerned me, because I'm not one to favor unpredictable people, especially those who may end up running our country. So I read up on all of them, and I'm by no means like, SUPER educated on the matter, but I feel like I can safely say that Clark is my man. It's a little strange to think about...me...liking Clark...but at the same time it sort of makes sense. I'm okay with the fact that he's from the south, very okay with the fact that he's a general, and even though I'm apparently "left-liberal" many of his views align with mine in a similar enough fashion that I think I might actually like him as a president (or at least like him more than The War Monkey). Also, I think he's centered enough politically to do a nice job of pulling in the votes of republicans who feel disenchanted with the Bush administration. This is a significant factor for me, because I'm more desperate to get Bush out of the white house than I am to get one specific democratic candidate in. Which is why I'm frustrated with statements people (Brett) make like "I don't really like any of them enough, so I think I'll be voting for Nader." I know that if those smaller parties get a certain percentage of votes they get heavy funding and it's meaningful and all that...not exactly "throwing away" a vote, but Bush's viewpoints are dead opposite mine on almost every single key issue. The idea of having him around for a second term seriously disturbs me; I'm desperate for our country to be free of his little coup, which is something far less likely to be accomplished when massive amounts of people who might have voted D choose to vote for small parties who have no chance of winning. I feel that a change in leadership is more important to our country this election year than it has been in a loooong time and honestly, I'm gonna back the democrats this year regardless of who wins the nomination (non of the candidates are really that bad, actually), and I'll be happy to do it. Just as long as once the REAL race starts, they're able to kick Bush's ass. :)
No comments:
Post a Comment