a little socio-political quiz for a paper I'm writing

I’m going to be writing a paper on political socialization and I’d appreciate it if everyone could answer the following questions.

If you don’t consider poltics something that intrests you, that’s fine and I would really like you to respond to this poll, I’ll need your input to prove my point! You can elaborate on your answers but short one word answers are just as good.

Q1: Is politics something that gets you fired up?
Q2: Do you consider yourself more right wing or more left wing?
Q3: Did you enjoy living with your parents while younger and being a subordinate part of the family structure?
Q4: Did you respect your parents authoritaran duties towards you? (in other words, if your parents said don’t do something, you didn’t do it)

Thanks!

  1. .NO,not really. (but it can at times, given the proper mood).

  2. middle of the road, leaning towards the left. (thats NOT conservative, right? see response number one).

  3. not past childhood.

  4. yes.

See, now, this is where some sort of response form would be helpful. A Lickert scale, for instance, would make a world of difference. But since you’ve not provided one, I’ll just say: well, sometimes, and on certain issues. But only rarely do politics get me as ‘fired up’ as, say, people who think it is perfectly OK to leave their animals chained out all day and night.

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Impossible for me to answer as written. I will say that I take a generally right-wing approach to financial and foreign policy and a generally left-wing approach to domestic policy, although that is by no means true across the board. It would be more accurate, however, to say that I incline towards being libertarian. (Lower-cased so as not to be confused with the poster of that name.)

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Does anyone? But, really, this is another unanswerable-as-written question. It assumes, for one thing, that I was a subordinate part of the family structure. In truth, I was an uncontrollable and almost constantly absent part of the family structure, to the extent that I was part of it at all. I guess, however, that what you’re asking is if I was a good little girl. The answer to that question is most emphatically no. Nor did I enjoy, or respond to, any of the attempts of others to make me be a good little girl.

Now, see, this question should’ve come before the question above it. That way, you can ask first if the respondent was respectful and obedient to his parents, and then you can follow it up with: IF you answered ‘yes’ to the previous question, did you enjoy the role of the respectful and obedient child?

My answer, by the way, is again a most resounding no.

Good luck with the survey! Will you be posting results here (after the thing is complete)?

1: Yes, sometimes… it really depends on what the issues are and what blowhard is currently, well, uh… blowing hard at the time…

2: More right wing; I vote Republican… but I do disagree with the standard Republican party line from time to time.

3: No. I hated living with my parents! WAY too restrictive!

4: Yes and No. Depended on how badly I wanted to do whatever it is they told me NOT to do!
Hope that helps a little!:wink:

What gets me fired up is cross-posting. Since this is a poll, we’ll go ahead and leave the one in IMHO open, and close this one, o.k.?