I took an online test the other day which told me i was a bleeding heart liberal. Until recently i have never thought about my political stance. Am I meant to care about politics at 19?
I discovered I already do. I care about how much money the government is going to give students. Being anti war, hating racism, sexism and discrimination means I have political views and ideas, which actually match up quite nicely with the liberal way of thinking.
After my online discovery, I had a hot date with my thesaurus and found that liberal is partnered with words like tolerant, free thinking and open minded. I consider myself to be all these things. I told my dad one night over dinner that I was a liberal. "So you're a communist?" he said. Um no dad, but thanks for partnering me up with Mao Zedong.
I'm not a communist, and maybe I'm not even a liberal. To be honest, i know a whole lot of nothing about New Zealand politics, and most of my friends are the same.
Should we take an interest, does it matter if we vote or not? I think it does. Why am I so reluctant to do anything about it?
Télécharger Ebook , by Giuseppe Pignato
5 years ago
3 comments:
I feel much the same, I have no idea about the NZ politics, my old flatmate tried to teach me. I got it for a little while but now I just feel like I'm trying to tread water again rather than actually getting anywhere in my political education.
I'm really just hanging out for some big policy that will make me go: "Okay, this is who I want to go with"
I think you've raised a good question: how do Jo and Joe citizen find out about politics these days? Is there enough information in the daily news media? Where else should you look?
I'm also interested to know what you think the issues are for the coming election. Or, better, what are your issues?
It's something I've been thinking about a lot lately, given that I haven't been back in NZ all that long and was more familiar with UK politics until recently.
I think politics are important because decisions are made that affect millions of people...I don't know much of the in's and out's or whatever but I care about the people who's lives might be affected so I think it's important to be informed and vote.
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