With the 2010 elections coming up next week, I have been doing some soul searching on political positions and trying to get an honest grip of how my beliefs might fit in on a "standardized scale". I feel that I am uniquely blessed to have lived in many different countries and many different states so that I have been exposed to many different mind sets instead of just growing up with a one town mindset.
I don't know who to trust in politics these days with all the negative campaigning that is happening not only here in Boise, Idaho; but is occurring nationwide. I have seen more than one major candidate physically change party affiliations to gain votes as the political climate changes from one election cycle to the next.
I have struggled every election year with comments about:
- Republican vs. Democrat;
- Right wing vs. left wing;
- Conservative vs. Liberal
http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/other/conservative-vs-liberal-beliefs/
This is bound to be a bit controversial in that it does make reference to stands on abortion, death penalty, etc., but these issues won't go away with or without talking about them so I didn't edit them out.
I am not a party line voter, but based on this chart, I can at least see that my beliefs do tend to be more conservative and Republican based. I am also very open minded via religions and if I ever saw a chart like this showing Catholics, LDS (Morman), Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, Methodist, Muslim, etc., I would probably be just as guilty as picking and choosing my own path!
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