PolarLava::Blog

Last week I stumbled upon the website Undercaffeinated.  I don't currently subscribe to the right-wing rhetoric that he seems to be infatuated with, but I did find one thing of interest.  In the menu bar there's a link to The Political Compass, that I think everyone should check out.

So I went and took their political test.  The results basically say I'm a "centrist, liberal, libertarian".  I scored: Economic Left/Right: -1.25, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.95.  This is in contrasts with Undercaffeinated's score of Economic Left/Right: 6.12, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.44.  Thus I'd say we share a similar outlook on social issues, but apparently differ on how to achieve the goals…whatever they may be.

It really doesn't matter because our government seems to be on a constant downward (death?) spiral. Congress refuses to kill pork barrel projects and deal with the increasing burden of the national debt and the many entitlement programs.  We really need to reel in spending, but that isn't going to be happening anytime soon.  Gotta get re-elected you know!  Which is quite unfortunate for us, particularly our future generations.  Neither of the two major political parties really seem "gets it" anymore.  Your choice now is the "tax and spend" Democrats or the "tax cut and spend" Republicans.  Can someone please let me know when there's a "tax moderately and stop spending so damn much money we don't have" candidate/party?