Today at lunch time, I wandered into the local stationary/craft store to browse around.
While in there, the two women working there were having a conversation that I started to overhear somewhere in the middle. It went something like this:
1st woman: “Last night I went to one of those help you vote sites on the internet and took the test.”
2nd woman: “Yeah?”
1st: “Well, I took the test and it said that I should vote for John Kerry”
2nd: “Really??!!!??”
1st: “Yeah, but there is just one problem with that. I am a Republican.”
At that point I just gritted my teeth and left the store. No, not because she was a Republican, but because she was too stupid to vote her will instead of the party line.
Look lady, just because you belong to a political party does not mean you have to vote for your party’s candidate. There were plenty of Democrats that voted for Reagan, and there were plenty of Republicans that voted for Clinton. For Christ’s sake, compare the issues and make up your own damn mind.
This shit about voting down a party’s line is starting to piss me off, and what is worse, is that I used to do it to. No more. Don’t be lazy. Do your research. Vote for who you think will do the best job.
That way lies total chaos and anarchy! Why, without the Party Leaders dictating our choices, we might not vote the Right Way, and surely that will lead to the Downfall of Western Civilization!
If she’d said she was a Republican, but she was going to vote for Kerry because an internet quiz said she should, well, that’d be about equally stupid, wouldn’t it?
I mean, you take a quiz on your political leanings on a libertarian website, and it tells everybody that they’re actually at least little bit libertarian . . . You take a quiz on a Society of Friends website about your religion, and it tells you you’re actually a little bit Quaker . . .
I’d be interested to know where she found the quiz.
As has been said, it would have been stupid for her to vote for Kerry just because she took a biased test. That being said, we really have no idea. Take Political Compass, for example. I can’t seem to sense any bias in the test, it placed me right about where I thought I should be. I will say, though, that some of the questions are a little too black-and-white, but I don’t think that’s biased, it just forces a yes or no decision when you’d like to put depends.
Is there a particular issue or issues that you think it was incorrect on? Were the reasons you are for Bush and against Kerry represented by any questions?
