I Believe...

...in grassroots democracy. Everyone deserves a say in the decisions that will affect their lives.

...in social justice and equal opportunity. Everyone should have the rights to benefit equally from society's resources and the environment.

...that same sex marriage should be legal. The choice is personal, and should not be decided by any one else.

...in the right to choose. Similar to same sex marriage, the choice to have an abortion or not should be decided by the people involved (the mother and the father)and no one else.

...federally funded stem cell research. The possibilities with stem cell research seem endless, and to not fund this type of research, that could potentially save millions of lives seems wrong.

...a free market economy. The only people making rules about how businesses are run and how things are priced should be the people who own the business in question.

...unions. I have been a "member" of one for my entire life and honestly, can't say anything bad about them. I feel for those who lose work because a union company gets the job, but that's about it.

...that if the federal government has the power to hold the schools accountable for certain standards, then the federal government should adequately fund the Department Of Education. Individual states and towns should follow suit. What I really believe though, is that the federal government should but the heck out of the whole thing all together. That doesn't seem to be a likely scenario though, so they should at least back up their rules and regulations with the money to enforce them.

...individual rights should be maximized, with little to no government involvement.


The quiz I posted the other day inspired me to write this. After careful consideration of how I really felt, I have decided that the quiz results seem invalid. It certainly appears by this belief statement that I am in favor of much "less government" than a socialist society would have. Any kind of a centralized government setting seems inherently wrong, on many levels.

Some of these beliefs seem to contradict each other a bit (for example the free market economy and the pro union beliefs). Sometimes, things just aren't black and white, I guess.

Based on this belief statement, I would say that my choice to register as an independent (unaffiliated or whatever it is called now) was a good one. I don't think I can honestly define myself as being a member of one party or another. When it comes to voting, I have always voted for whoever I liked any way, not ever taking in to consideration which party they associated themselves with. My line of thinking has always been, if I like what you stand for, you get my vote. It's a fairly simple thing, it seems.

The question though, still remains, what am I? Republican? Democrat? Libertarian? Green Party? Socialist? Capitalist? Anything else?

What do you think?