Green

Well, I took the the Political Compass test, and, to say the least, I am very satisfied with my results. This is the political ideology that I viewed myself as for the last couple of years. With regards to my economic philosophy, I always thought I was more on the conservative side. However, maybe I need to rethink that!

Funny story though, if you would have asked me in high school with which party I identified myself, I would have indubitably said Republican. Soon after attending college however, I became aware of my robot-icism. Because my dad identified himself as a Republican, I, too, assumed I was Republican... like it was genetic trait. But after entering the real world and becoming a real person, I forge my opinions on things.

I believe the little red dot situates me within the democratic party, which is now the party I lean to the most. Apparently I also have similar values as The Dahli Lama, and I'm just a bit more right-ist and libertarian than Ghandi. I dig it. It is interesting to the note the lack of people in the green space. Everybody (Bush, Sarkosy, Merkel, Brown, Thatcher, Hitler) seems to be fairly Republican on the map. And it's funny to see nobody other than Friedman (whom I very much admire) in the purple.

Going to the Democratic Party's website, the first thing that I noticed was the giant heads of Sotomayor and Obama... makes sense. I really like the layout and user-friendliness of the website. It does an outstanding job of delineating the agenda of the party by providing a link aptly named "agenda." This navigates you to any number of issues ranging from "healthcare for all" to "economic stewardship" to "immigration reform." Another tactical thing I noticed was the giant button for "Espanol." This is evident of the war that is raging between the Dems and Repubs for the hispanic population vote. However, when I went to the Republican website, I could not find a single link to translate the page en Espanol... uh oh! I feel like the Democrat website has SO much information about the party that it would take me months to comb through it all. Not necessarily a bad thing though.

It looks like the Democratic party is really playing the game well this time around.