Monday, April 11, 2016

Politics and Personality

Recently, I took a political personality quiz to determine which aspects of politics I agree with the most and how I view such aspects. I believe it's fairly accurate in describing how I see the government as it is today. The highest ranking dimension that I got by answering the questions on the quiz was democratic. The results revealed that I have seen the unfairness in the political system as many are being treated unfairly due to the biased decisions of the government officials. As a politician with such a personality, one will please no one in an attempt to please everyone. It's fairly true in a way that whenever I try to resolve problems between friends to hopefully find the best solution for everybody, nothing truly gets resolved. However, sometimes it may all work out, but most of the times, it doesn't.

From another quiz to determine my political compass, the results revealed that my answers came closest to the views of Gandhi. I'm more of a left social libertarian but not as extreme as the analysis of the quiz claimed Gandhi to be. I find it shocking that it is relatively true that the results showed that I valued the beliefs of each individual. With only a set of questions, the results came pretty close to my actual beliefs. Even more interesting is that the analysis claimed that anarchism is the opposite of fascism despite the popular belief of communism being it. I had never thought of the differences between communism and anarchism to be so explicitly defined to ensure the most appropriate term in this case. From the results of the quiz, it all made sense to me.

According to the results from a quiz to determine my political typology, I am a solid liberal along with 15% of the public. I didn't exactly know where I stood before in terms of politics, but it was shocking to find out that I'm on the extreme side of liberalism. However, the results does reflect my beliefs in that I do believe that military strength cannot resolve the violence in the world. Also, the results revealed that I believe the fluidity of government will lead the way to a more successful society, which is pretty accurate. Besides being on the extremes of one side, nothing was too shocking as the past quizzes kind of revealed the beliefs that I had.

After taking a quiz to determine how my social viewpoints matched with the current candidates of the 2016 Presidential Election, the results showed that I side with Bernie Sanders the most. It was not exactly surprising to see my results because from the political compass quiz, I came to a conclusion that I supported more of the socialist views which Sanders advocates. Also, from the other quizzes, I realized that I was most likely going to get the result of a candidate in the Democratic party. At first, I wasn't sure about my views on siding with Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, but after this quiz, I can see where I stand now. Also, after reading this article about the differences between the candidates and their viewpoints, I'm even more sure now that I have beliefs closest to Sanders'.


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