After taking these political quizzes it was determined that I have a mostly libertarian view on politics and that I value an equal economy over the market economy. The allsides website determined that I had a left leaning bias. For most of the questions I either answered left or center, so I was not surprised when the results stated that I had a left bias. I do not think that this test is very acute because the questions are very basic and the quiz itself was too short, this does not allow for enough information to make a good analysis on a person. Eight Values, I thought was a much better test to truly evaluate a person’s standings on their political views. Most of the results were not very surprising to me, due to the fact that I have strong beliefs on each of the topics. The one section of this test that was surprising to me was Civil Axis results. I did not think that I was almost split even on liberty vs. authority. I would have thought that I would have leaned further toward the libertarin views, because I agree with more of their ideas than the authoritarian ideas. The Political Compass cite was the most interesting of the three because it gave examples of other people on the political spectrum, which you could compare to your results. Again I was not surprised by the results that the site gave me, which said I leaned toward a libertain view and was mostly on the left side of the spectrum. I feel as though I am in the majority of many of the college students at Kent State University, seeing how this is a majority liberal college. I think that these tests did not really show me new information, rather than conform to the ideas I already had about my political standings.

AllSides – Left Leaning Bias

EightValues 

• Social Democracy
  • Economic Axis – Social 
    • 67.9% Equality vs. 32.1% Markets 
  • Diplomatic Axis – Peaceful 
    • 33.9% Nation vs. 66.1% World 
  • Civil Axis – Liberal
    • 57.1% Liberty vs. 42.9% Authority 
  • Societal Axis – Progressive 
    • 28.1% Tradition vs. 71.1% Progress 

The Political Compass 

• Economic Left/Right: -5.25
• Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.18

Haven’t we all gone to a fast food restaurant or a cheap clothing store and have not been treated like the queens and kings we are by the young staff. These college and high school students, who often come to their eight hour shift after a full day of classes, should be more enthusiastic about their minimum wage jobs, and should also be thankful that they even have a job in the first place. I mean how else are they going to be taught how to be polite to adults, as well as learn respect if we, the aggressive customer, do not yell and ask for the manger when the littlest thing is wrong. I propose some amount of violence if the screaming at the underage employee does not get the point across. I am not saying extreme violence but mild throwing of objects, such as food containers or clothes hangers should be sufficient enough to teach these over privileged kids a lesson in humility. When I was their age I would work from sun up to sun down for ten cents an hour and had no complaints whatsoever. I saved my money and worked very hard so at the age of eighteen I purchased my first brand new car for twenty dollars, my first house for one hundred dollars and still had money in the bank. I just do not understand how these kids keep complaining about how they are broke, it is not like college is expensive or that unemployment is that low, they just need to grit their teeth and work harder like I did. I truly believe that it is our job as the older generation to lead these children to a better life through the use of verbal and borderline physical assault at their workplaces. 

Haven’t we all gone to a fast food restaurant or a cheap clothing store and have not been treated like the queens and kings we are by the young staff. These college and high school students, who often come to their eight hour shift after a full day of classes, should be more enthusiastic about their minimum wage jobs, and should also be thankful that they even have a job in the first place. I mean how else are they going to be taught how to be polite to adults, as well as learn respect if we, the aggressive customer, do not yell and ask for the manger when the littlest thing is wrong. I propose some amount of violence if the screaming at the underage employee does not get the point across. I am not saying extreme violence but mild throwing of objects, such as food containers or clothes hangers should be sufficient enough to teach these over privileged kids a lesson in humility. When I was their age I would work from sun up to sun down for ten cents an hour and had no complaints whatsoever. I saved my money and worked very hard so at the age of eighteen I purchased my first brand new car for twenty dollars, my first house for one hundred dollars and still had money in the bank. I just do not understand how these kids keep complaining about how they are broke, it is not like college is expensive or that unemployment is that low, they just need to grit their teeth and work harder like I did. I truly believe that it is our job as the older generation to lead these children to a better life through the use of verbal and borderline physical assault at their workplaces. 

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