Meme thingie

[woodface]

So I saw this politics meme that's out there and tried it for fun.

You Are a New School Democrat

You like partying and politics - and are likely to be young and affluent. You're less religious, traditional, and uptight than most Democrats. Smoking pot, homosexuality, and gambling are all okay in your book. You prefer that the government help people take care of themselves.

What political persuasion are you?

Sex between consenting adults should be:
Legal and left alone
Regulated by community standards

You mean sex? The entire bloody thing? I'm dead set against restricting anything between genders but now you mean the whole bloody thing? What are they gonna do? Make you request to have sex a month beforehand so they can send an observer to your bedroom and make sure no body part is going where it should not go? Talk about sexual frustration.

Marijuana should be: legal etc

You know, I don't like drugs and I am pretty much against it except for medical reasons. My country has legalised the possession for personal usage though.

Replacing government welfare with church and private charities

*blinks* Isn't welfare something the government HAS to provide? Is it not their responsibility to take care of their citizens? But you know, I really am too little informed to understand exactly how the whole thing works in Belgium.

Who would you trust the most?

A politican you voted for
A CEO of a company you like
Your minister / pastor / priest

Trust with what? I trust a politican (well not trust trust) to take care of politics, I trust a minister to take care of the spiritual health (if you chose to let them anyway) and I'm not sure what the company is doing in there. When it comes to saving my life? I'll trust a doctor. Dude, what kind of question is this?

Abortion is:
Wrong
A woman's choice

*sighs* Who are we to chose for anyone else? If someone is raped, I believe it is their right to end the pregnancy. If someone can not carry a baby because it would harm her, they have a right to end it. If someone knows they do not have the means to care for their child (be it whatever reason) they have a right. Whether or not I agree with their reasons does not matter here. That is for every woman to decide for herself.

Are you for or against school vouchers?
Against, they make things worse for underprivlidged students
For, because every parent should be allowed to chose a religious school instead of public schools
Not sure... you like the idea of competition - but not goverment paying for private or religious schools.

I'm not entirely sure what school vouchers are. Someone? I do know that Belgium had a crisis around religious and public schools. We have a division now. I have gone to catholic schools all my life, our government does not support these schools (or they do but not as much as the public schools). I believe that religious schools have a right to not teach moral classes besides religion classes. I believe that if you send your child to such a school, you have to follow the school's guidelines and you have no right to whine. Besides that, I believe that public schools should not have any involvement with religion. If they want to give religious classes and moral classes, then they should make classes available for all religions.

But above all, I think our government should strive for the best education possible. I don't believe in dumbing things down. If catholic schools in Belgium provide a better education than public schools, it should be the public schools who should heighten their standards. It should not mean that catholic schools have to be pushed to give moral classes so some rich people who don't want to have anything to do with religion can have their way.

Comments

[amilyn.livejournal.com]

In the Chicago Public Schools where I teach, 85% of the students (and 67% in my school) are considered "low income". This means that the students are in foster care, the families receive public aid/welfare, or the students qualify for free or reduced cost school lunches.

I was HORRIFIED by this my first year there, wondering how they managed...and then found out that my family would have qualified for free/reduced cost lunch had we applied when I was growing up--but my father would never have let us apply because he was too proud to accept welfare.

But the idea that you should be able to make it on your own--"pull yourself up by your bootstraps"--is rather integral to the entire psyche of Americans, especially here in the midwest where it's all about independence and surviving alone on the frontier (which, honestly, is now rather west of us, but was here at one time).

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

on the frontier (which, honestly, is now rather west of us, but was here at one time).

Speaking as someone whose parents live at 9000 feet... It's really not anywhere any more. It kinda died with cars. :-)

You can feel differently if you throw an axle in the middle of eastern Colorado. But even then we weren't alone, just worried we'd be late for the next show date.

You're right about the "make it on your own" thing being generally American. But it does get overridden by the belief in certain neighborhoods that it isn't possible