I just love the internet. I've taken a variety of "independent" polls designed to establish my political leaning and which candidate best suits my political beliefs, and the results were utterly unsurprising. These internet polls have informed me that the best match for my political leanings and stances on the issue is:
Rudi Giuliani. Or Ron Paul. Or Dennis Kucinich. Or Al Sharpton. Or Hillary Clinton. Or Mitt Romney.
I kid you not: various quizzes have mentioned each of these candidates as being "ideal" (or at least in the top 3.) How's that for definitive?
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There was a day—not all that long ago—when this sort of thing would have been nonsense. A friend of my (and godfather to my youngest) grew up in a family that always voted Democrat. His parents were steelworkers in northwest Indiana. Steelworkers are union and unions vote Democratic. It was that simple. And the Democratic Party chose its candidates in conventions to which local party organizations sent representative. And the Democrat, like his Republican rival, stood for a most or less clearly identifiable ideology.
Now we have gotten to the point where party identification is almost meaningless. There are proposals afoot to scrap party primaries completely. Have a primary and the top two get to go at it in the general election. So we could have Clinton vs. Obama.
There's a lot to reflect on here. Maybe American people don't like ideas any more. Maybe we no longer have the natural factions of an earlier age. (Who are the capitalists now? Well, a lot of capital—stock—is in the hands of retired steelworkers and working teachers, secretaries, hairdressers, plumbers, etc.) The Democratic Party has become the Not-President-Bush's-Party, and the Republicans are the Not-Liberal-Democrat Party.
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