Liberwhatnow?

A lot of people know politics as left and right. Until an hour ago, I did too. For those people, it's either Democrats or Republicans, Liberals or Conservatives. A few people in the middle. I've known for a while that both sides are full of bullshit, but always considered myself centrist but went with the lesser of two evils most of the time and therefore a bit republican. I was republican on more issues than I was a democrat in, anyways, but I did agree with either one side or the other. Now I figured out why.

I found this test. It's 10 questions long, three potential answers for each question. One of the shortest things on the internet that actually works.

Well I took this test. Normally I avoid what I consider mundane internet tests. But if I'm putting it on my blog, there's probably something important about it, I don't just slap whatever I laughed at for the day up here.



On the horizontal scale, obviously I'm going a bit to the right, which is really not all that surprising. What I found interesting (aside from how conveniet the graphical representation is) is how far off the horizontal centerline I am. I'm all the way at the top! I can barely even go higher than that.

But being so high up at the top put me into a category I've hardly even heard of. Libertarian is rarely mentioned in what I do read about politics (and isn't mindless bashing of the other side). But the name caught my eye. Libertarian? As in liberty? If you've been reading my other recent posts, you'll realize why that means so much to me, because liberty means freedom and freedom is my favorite thing in the world.

And the Libertarian motto? "Live and let live." I like it. It actually makes sense. I wasn't sure if politics could even do that. It's so simple, appealing, and easy to understand that I can barely see how anybody can go either left or right. But I assume most political parties are like that.

So I've found a political identity that actually fits me. I guess that's big enough to warrant a whole blog post. Being neither left nor right in a time and place where everybody is either left or right, I'll either have a lot of people pissed off at me for supporting something their opposing party does, or happy that I'm mostly in favor of things they can agree with. So go ahead and tell me how pissed off you are, becuase if you're not pissed off, you're a lot less likely to comment.

Here's a link to the test, by the way. [http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html]

And in closing, the most intelligent words that I heard while playing GTA: San Andreas...

"When you take the worst parts of an elephant and a donkey, you get a lot of shit."