A bit about me, and my UNpolitical ideaologies

So, I bombed the pretests gracefully, not much more than most of you guys, I'm sure.

58% correct on the Civics quiz. 60% or so on the Current Events. And I'm ashamed of what I made on the Political Typology poll. Just Kidding. But I was very surprised at some of my answers when questioned on some tougher topics. It's not like I never think about these things, but I have been able to live my life thus far, for 29 happy (if happily ignorant) years, without displaying or practicing any political views of my own, one way or the other.

So, yes, the Typology poll says I lean heavily on the Liberal side. But, I have never voted, and am only registered because I had to to renew my license a while back. While I'm not necessarily proud of this, I also have no reason to be ashamed. I always said that I would vote when both sides decided to drop their holier-than-thou charades, leave behind the finger pointing, and start to discuss what our faults as a whole have been; possibly even (gasp!) work together to see what Really does work best and in our best interests. Does this mean I think that we can achieve "universal ideals" or world peace? It'd be nice, but I'm not counting on seeing it in my lifetime.

I just hope to see the day when the arguments and issues up for debate, or bills or propositions trying to be passed have Anything to do with me, and I hear a valid argument in the favor of my opinion. If I politician were to speak directly to me, I would be there to listen, and would show my support by raising my voice and voting.

Now that I've written it down, maybe I do regret not voting in 2000 and 2004. I know that we are given a great opportunity to be an important asset to our own government, something that not all countries can say. But, at the same time, I feel like the powers that be will always have a larger voice than we do. And after reading the Declaration of Independence, top to bottom for the first time (I can't even tell you if they made us do that in middle school or not), I feel like some of our liberties are increasingly at risk, and that even today, especially today, we would not have the power to overthrow our government if we felt them to be unjust or uncivil.