political philsophy

[shadowkat]

Cool quiz that I ganked from rozk. The best thing? You can click to have it automatically post to your lj.

What's Your Political Philosophy? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Old School Democrat Old school Democrats emphasize economic justice and opportunity. The Democratic ideal is best summarized by the Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Old School Democrat 95% Green 65% New Democrat 50% Foreign Policy Hawk 20% Socially Conservative Republican 20% Libertarian 15% Pro Business Republican 5%

Apparently I'm not going to change my political philosophy by osmosis no matter how many libertarians and pro-business republicans I surround myself with during working hours. ;-)

Comments

[cynesthesia.livejournal.com]

LOL, I got the same result and percentage at the top. Not as hawkish as it made me out to be, maybe I hit the wrong button somewhere (which sounds sort of Strangelovian).

[liliaeth]

I got results in the ninties for both New Democrat and Old School Democrat, chances are apparantly almost miniscule of me agreeing on anything with the republican party*g*

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I have to say that I found this line offensive:
"defeat the twin evils of Islamism and totalitarianism."
Islam is a religion with millions of believers, so in spite of some fundamentalist who become terrorists I don't think very highly of a quiz writer who calls the religion itself 'evil'.

My results:

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Had much the same reaction. I read it and thought oookay, interesting. But unfortunately not that surprising. There's quite a few people who equate terrorism with Islam at the moment.

I'm thinking this may be human nature. To make generalizations based on what we think we know. Whether it be that all corporations are evil and anti-environment (which a surprising number of people believe - granted a good percentage may be, but NOT all are). Or all Islams are terrorists. Or all Jews question everything and are confrontational. It's still the same faulty logic. But, we do it anyway. I've been fighting my tendency to do it on a daily basis. It annoys me how often I make these dumb generalizations. Wish I didn't.