Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.21
http://politicalcompass.org/testI found this website that gives you an estimate of where you stand on the economic and social left/right sliding scale. It's no new information really, if you know where you stand on the issues, but still sort of cool to see where you stand in the likes of Ghandi, Stalin, or Hitler.
I was happy that Obama won, however, the reactions to the election of many of my friends was very discouraging. It really showed who knew their stuff and who went into the voting booths blindly and just bubbled in the circle mommy and daddy told them to bubble in. It was pretty sad. I talked to many people about the results, and the ones who actually understood the issues were tended to be the more level-headed ones who were willing to give Obama a chance before saying America is going to Hell. I had people telling me Obama is a socialist who wants to give hard working peoples' money to lazy bums on the street. Puh-lease. Even a tiny bit of research proves this false. First of all, he's giving tax CUTS to middle class families. The increase is going to 250+ income households. Now I am in NO way saying that those people are not hard-working. That sort of money does not come easily in this world. I was just pissed at the fact that the people making those comments were not close to being in that bracket, and were going to be receiving the benefits of the cuts. I am completely open minded to the opposite opinion, but freakin do your research and understand what you are talking about before you make statements based on no verifiable facts and that you can't back up. Don't be ignorant.
OK, so whew. Calm down and breathe. Now that I can get off my high horse I can honestly say there are many things that I make ignorant statements that are based more on emotion and perception than verifiable facts. It proves we all have room to improve, I guess.
I'm looking forward to the next four years.
Preconceived notions are a voter's biggest hinderance.
ReplyDeleteI have a few friends who are in the $250,000 + category and we all say the same thing - if you don't have enough deductions to bring your net taxable income to below that figure, you can afford to pay the extra 3 percent. All of us voted Obama.
On the other hand, the friends who are middle-class were the ones worried about taxes going up. Most were voting McCain.
Ignorance is bliss...
Cool, Tommy - I'm over by Ghandi! I'll have to post this on my blog.
ReplyDeleteHere via The Lemonade Stand and Dave's Window.
ReplyDelete"I was just pissed at the fact that the people making those comments were not close to being in that bracket, and were going to be receiving the benefits of the cuts."
These were my thoughts exactly.
Thanks, Violet. I was over by the Dalai Lama. I thought it was cool to be able to measure just how far left or right you are and also to compare yourself to the other figures listed.
ReplyDeleteDave... ignorance is truly bliss. truer words have not been spoken.
blogarita, thanks for checking out my blog! I've been trying to get more readers so please pass the url on to anyone you think I would interest. and thank you for sharing my sentiments about the election.. I was pretty heated about it after he got elected. college kids can be so dumb sometimes.
tom
ReplyDeletei was in the lower left quantrant but toward the middle of the square- so in the same square of with Gandhi but not that close to him.
i found your blog through Em;s.. I didnt know you had a blog. send it to claire rose. she would love it.
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