My Political Views

It's definitely safe to say that I am a liberal. Both of my parents are liberals, and each of them has at least one liberal parent. My mother is incredibly politically active and has been since long before I was born. She worked as an intern at the White House when she met my father and has always been avid campaigner, something that has somewhat defined my childhood and certainly has defined my views about the world as they are today.

I have attended countless rallies, marches, and endorsement parties. I spent almost my entire fourth grade year in the Howard Dean campaign office, every single day after school until eight or nine or whenever my father could pick my sister and me up from Falls Church after work. I've been watching the Colbert Report and the Daily Show since middle school and I don't think it would be unreasonable to say that my mom has fed me every ounce of liberal propaganda she could find- not say I didn't happily ingest it.  However, I distinctly remember after going to campaign party in DC one summer in seventh grade, I told my mom I had pretty much had enough of politics. My house was still the Herndon-Reston area headquarters for the Obama campaign in '07 and '08. She didn't really listen, but my family dealt with it, and I attended Obama's inauguration with my friend Erin and her mom.

Today I feel that if I wanted to choose a very different path from my parents, I could definitely do so, but I find myself agreeing with nearly all of the views I was raised to have. I believe that denying rights to gays and lesbians and prosecuting immigrants or minorities is (or should be) unconstitutional and that government should always be conducted in a secular manner and one that will benefit the greatest amount of people (and especially those who need the most help). A weak or small government makes very little sense to me; obviously the government has to have some critical weight or nothing will be accomplished. Additionally, although I have yet to pay my own taxes, I support them and think very little can be done without them. The government cannot just make money. It's been attempted and it does not work very well. I am rather pacifistic in many respects and believe war almost always causes much, much harm than it does good. In sum, the profiler quiz was extremely accurate and I am definitely liberal.