Trickyy- I don't think I fall into a particular category either, but I certainly have opinions on the way I feel certain things should be done. Do you have any of those opinions? What led you to them?
A major source of ideology for me is from my mother (big surprise, I know). My mom is loud, opinionated, and stubborn... and I inherited most of that plus a lot of the same ideas.
I believe strongly in education and that our current system is failing, and that is mostly because my mom is a teacher, in the trenches so to speak, and I hear the first-hand accounts of the difficulties and failures of the current system.
I believe strongly in the right to privacy, mostly because that's how I was raised. Mom always got angry about seat belt laws and other such that were to protect us against ourselves, rather than allowing for the rights of the individual - even when we're being stupid. That right to privacy extends to marriages, body procedures, and the like.
I believe that we can have a social security program and a national health care program that isn't bleeding money and costing us billions in taxes and otherwise. I believe we should.
I believe that we must spend money to make ourselves free of the need for oil. There is a solution, possibly already considered - we need more research, and that costs money, and considering the countries we are dependent on generally hate us... it behooves us to be free of that both for fiscal reasons and security reasons.
I disagree with my mother about the war - but I chalk that up to our being in different generations, and that her generation may be a bit more inclined to fear than I am. She is one of the most open minded people I know - and she brought us up to believe that we are all people first and foremost... however, I hear her say things that belie a certain bias towards groups of people not her own. I think that is also generational... even tho, yes, I believe that we are ALL a little bit racist whether we like it or not.
I believe that Bush is not really all that bad a person - he has strongly-held opinions and does whatever he has to to support those opinions. I just completely disagree with most of them. That has come mostly from things I've read in the news and such, since I can't get a logical word out of my mother on that one (she despises him and "his goddamned smirk!!".
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I believe that our political system is nearing a breaking point: either to complete corruption or complete meltdown. I don't know which, but it seems terribly likely in the next few decades.
So now that I'm an honest-to-goodness adult, I'm trying to find reasons for what I believe, and if those reasons don't exist, I would like to change those beliefs. I need to know more.