Bad Liberal

[morrigirl]

Your Political Profile:

Overall: 10% Conservative, 90% Liberal

Social Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?

*nods* Yeah, that sounds about right, though I did have some problems with the questions. Take number 4 for example; I definitely don't think voucher systems do anything to improve public education, in fact it encourages the flow of federal cash away from the schools that most need it and into schools that are already well funded. But, and I know this is not very liberal of me, I don't think the No Child Left Behind should be completely revoked. I know way too many people who made it up to the twelfth grade on social promotion alone and graduated high school with barely a fourth grade reading level. I think that is horrible. I think social promotion kills self-esteem and intellectual curiosity by throwing children who are not prepared into school work that is beyond their abilities. I believe there is nothing shameful in holding back a kid who has not yet demonstrated mastery of the skills required to move to the next grade level. However, I don't think standardized tests are an accurate measure of that mastery. Teaching children how to ace standardized tests instead of how to put the skills they are learning to use is yet another example of how public school students are being short changed. So...I had a hard time answering question 4 because I didn't agree with either answer.

I didn't like number 11 either. My beef with that one was that I thought both choices (reducing the national deficit and helping the poor and homeless) were of equal importance.

I guess I am pretty conservative when it comes to crime and defense. I can't get behind gun control because the constitution keeps tripping me up. (I'd be a hypocrite to defend the first amendment so vehemently and not the second.) I believe in the death penalty even though I hate hearing about people getting gassed and injected and all that crap. In the case of the death penalty, all I can think of is the family of the victim. I know that if, God forbid, someone killed my brother, who I love more than anyone of anything else on the planet, I would want to kill the person who murdered him. Point blank. I would want to pull the fucking switch. I believe families have the right to that brand of justice, and I am a firm believer in an eye for an eye. That's all there is to it.

That all probably makes me a bad liberal.

Oh well.

Comments

[lightandwinged.livejournal.com]

I didn't really like that quiz because I couldn't answer any of the questions. Anything that gives you two black-or-white answers with regards to politics is generally not my cup of tea.

Have you seen the politics test on OKCupid? That one is a little bit broader...allows for some more moderate answers and doesn't place you as either strictly conservative or strictly liberal.

~Abby~

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Personal ideology is hardly ever strictly black or white.

I have taken the OkCupid politics test. I scored as a Socialist, my little dot falling directly between Hillary Clinton and Mahatma Ghandi.