Family Values and The Interview

What are our politicians saying again? Where do I truly stand? 

     How about some background? I am a senior in high school and am delving into my AP class in which we are encouraged to blog and share our thoughts and curriculum and general teenage angst. I began this class to understand a bit more about our government and feel frustrated about the upcoming 2016 election. While I do not need a grade in a class to feel the frustration, I would like to be knowledgeably befuddled by our great leaders and can intelligently say that we're all doomed. I will link a site on how to make a DIY bomb-shelter in a few posts. Hermit life isn't that bad?


     

So far in my class, we've had two different quizzes about typology and general opinion to find out footing. (I'll link them below). I was classified as the young outsider. I'm a social liberal and feel generally let down by our government. We are sort of the white crayon of the political coloring book because of our disinterest in overseas affairs. I feel the war to be not our problem. I'm okay with passive isolationism. However, I won't lie, i'm still forming my own opinions. Take the quiz for yourself and figure out where you fit!
      The recent news quiz was fairly easy. Do you know who this is? It's Martin Luther King, Jr. and no its not the Islamic Malcolm X. And thanks to the controversial movie, The Interview starring James Franco and Seth Rogen, i'm even more aware of the fact that Kim Jong-un being the leader of North Korea. Link is below!
      Yesterday we had these pictures laid out all over these two tables and we had to decide whether or not a picture was political and we basically deduced that all of the pictures could be considered political (down to a picture of a racially ambiguous family). Even a backyard was deemed political, because it painted a picture of family values which has been a phrase that can gussy up a politicians image. No gay marriage because family values. *Wild Applause* 

  http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/the-news-iq-quiz/ (General news quiz)

http://www.people-press.org/quiz/political-typology/group/bd324384 (Typology quiz)