What are the two major political philosphies-librealism and conservatism political culture in the U.S. have nurtured.

NeedKarma

Hehe, I love how you dig yourself deeper.

XenoSapien

You are so obnoxious (shakes head).

XenoSapien

excon

Hello anastazia:

In today's political arena, neither political party represents a choice between true liberal or conservative views. BOTH parties are very liberal. That is, if you consider liberal to mean using government power to force social change.

Both parties consider themselves the arbiter of morals.... Democrats think the morals of the nation are paramount. Republicans think YOUR morals are paramount. The difference ends there. They BOTH use the cops to enforce their views.

Although Republicans shout about smaller government, they certainly don't mind using government power to enforce THEIR views - ala the drug war, and the give away to their friends in corporate America.

Democrats are full of it too. They don't mind using government power either, ala the drug war, and their attempt to redistribute the wealth by attacking corporate America.

So, looking at the parties today won't give you a sense of what the terms really mean.

In the beginning, conservatives liked it the way it was. It pretty much stayed that way for our first 100 years. Using government power to force social change wasn't part of the Constitution and nobody thought it was. Then liberals wanted to fine tune things. The liberals won out. Some fine tuning was necessary, of course, but we've fine tuned ourselves into a mess. The liberals are still running the show.

The differences between conservative thinking and liberal thinking was brought home to me the other day. I was discussing the virtues of America with a friend. He looked around and proclaimed, "What a wonderful place we live in and it's all due to our government."

I looked around and proclaimed, "What a wonderful place we live in. And, we did it in spite of our government".

excon

go-ask-mom

XenoSapien

There is a difference between conservative and republicans. Bush is not a conservative; for the last time. It appears that you are just looking for a way to link Bush so you can bash him.

Funding to keep us safe and some gov't programs, versus minimal dispersment of funds for safety, as well as a surplus of ridiculous government hand-out programs; conservatism versus liberalism; small gov't versus large.

XenoSapien

go-ask-mom

I'm not "trying" to "bash bush"......trust me. (Besides, theres a gazillion 'main focus' political outlets that do that!...or I could just turn on the news! lol) It's just interesting reading how people think/look at things.

So your trying to tell me that you don't "link" conservatives to the republicans and liberals to the democrats, eh? Something that been done for ohhhh.... a couple hundred years! By everybody except you, of course! lol!

XenoSapien

Conservatives and republicans have some similar views, but are two different factions. Democrats and liberals have some similar views, but are two different factions.

What I am saying is that it appeared to me that you were linking Bush to this question which has nothing to do with Bush; but I see now that you have detoured from that and instead are linking republicans to conservatives. You just make Bush an example of your point.

No, I do not link them together because they are different factions; yes, similar, but do have key differences. Bush/Reagan. Who is the conservative and who is the republican? See my point?

If that is what has been done for "a couple hundred years", then no wonder people in general don't understand political factions of the US, and their differences.

XenoSapien