Matthew+Reko

POLITICAL TOLERANCE To be honest, my political tolerance is really high, I would let anyone speak they're case no matter how dangerous they're supposed to be. Most people wouldn't give anybody a chance to voice their side, but I know enough to understand that misunderstandings are the number one reason why wars happen and many innocent people die... well that and because most of humanity is greedy.

POLITICAL TRUST a) I trust the government to a point, but sometimes they overstep their boundaries and become corrupt with power. Personally I think that the majority of people if they had been put in the seat of presidency would go mad with power, so it's difficult to find people who are capable of using those powers purely for what they are supposed to do, benefit the nation and NOT benefit themselves. b) I trust a lot of the political characters, Obama and Pomeroy, Obama was given a lot of stuff to handle and a major reason his popularity is declining is because everyone wants America to be perfect NOW when they don't realize we have not been perfect for years. I trust that Obama will point us in the right direction if anything, but I also believe that he could take us to the point where the populous wants to be... but then again could we ever agree on the place we want to go?

POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION My first political memory would be voting for the Bush vs Kerry election at school, that's when I began learning about politics. My family doesn't talk a lot of politics, although My uncle and I talk about the economics of our country all too much. We never actually talk about who we're for and stuff like that.

IDEOLOGY My political ideology is libertarian and proud of it, I support a lot of things for people like facebook. But in all seriousness, I think with gay rights that they should be allowed to have them and be able to be married because since when did this country start caring about whether or not homosexuals can get married? Why is that even a big thing? Sometimes I think the pointless stuff is being focused on too much and other more important things are being ignored, like the war on drugs, illegal immigration, or education?

POLITICAL EFFICACY I feel like I have low internal and external efficacy. I lose my faith in government every day, but then again I'm not really concerned with the government seeing as how North Dakota is kind of sheltered and is doing very well in the "recession" I think eventually government might be able to do the "right" thing, but like I said before when have we ever agreed on what is "right?"