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What is the difference between republicans and democrats?
04-08-2014, 06:23 PM
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What is the difference between republicans and democrats?
What is a republicans beliefs of government and what is a democrats beliefs on government?

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04-08-2014, 06:27 PM
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Democrats want to raise taxes and increase spending
Republicans want to cut taxes and increase spending.

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04-08-2014, 06:34 PM
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Republicans are all for taxing the poor and giving tax breaks to the rich. They believe in no abortions and less rights for women.
Democrats believe in taxing everyone equally and giving all people equal rights. They believe in giving people the freedom they deserve. That's the difference.
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04-08-2014, 06:38 PM
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Republicans...smaller goverment less taxes. Democrats...monster government tax and spend.
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04-08-2014, 06:39 PM
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The difference is that a Republican would not ask this question because we know the difference.
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04-08-2014, 06:48 PM
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Democrats and Republicans want to spend, the difference is Democrats wish to invest in it&#x27;s pepople and infrastructure, while Republicans want to give gifts to there rich constituencies.
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04-08-2014, 06:51 PM
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The difference that this independent sees is two fold. One, Both are corrupt politicians who are bought and paid for, the Republicans STAY bought, the Democrats on the other hand occasionally go against their buyers and do something for the American people. Two, the Republicans are bullies who would rather destroy the USA than be out of power, the Democrats are passive aggressive and get their way only quietly not through bullying.
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04-08-2014, 06:59 PM
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All these people are on one side or the other so they won&#x27;t give you a right answer, rep- are for defending their state whatever it takes, decreasing the size of gov reach, against abortions, most against homosexuality, for use of firearms. But in reality our reps do very little to accomplish this. Dems- against fire arms, for abortions, for a big gov, for equality depending on the support from people, against war... etc etc.. the two party system is faulty but people have to choose one they feel like and end up accepting beliefs they don&#x27;t want.
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04-08-2014, 07:00 PM
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Republicans - Small Gov't - watch spending - stay OUT of our lives......

Demoncrats - Big huge Gov't - Tax Big Business, till they leave the US - Spend like crazy - give away tax money to ILLEGALS, Wide Open borders, FREE money & goodies for SLACKERS who refuse to work
Control Everybody's Lives (THEIR way) - - ..The list is Endless ..........
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04-08-2014, 07:09 PM
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Republican usually refers to someone is a member of or supports the ideals of a political party called the Republican Party. The same goes for Democrats and the Democratic Party. For any political party, they exist as so to be an organized effort to put into political office those that subscribe to it’s general political philosophy. The Republican Party generally will support those who believe in Conservative political philosophy although they also support Libertarians too (a close relative of Conservative thought). The Democratic Party does the same for Liberals.

What you are really asking is to define what Conservatism and Liberalism mean. Conservatism goes with tried and proven methods of governance before trying unproven ones. Liberalism is more idealistic. It looks to promise (or utopia) of new types of systems of government, fulfilling some perceived desire of the people. These are broad definitions because what they mean in specific principles and policy depend on the culture of the country or region. This is reflected in, for instance, how American Conservatism is completely different than any Middle East Conservatism, and is even at odds with those beliefs.

What is considered Conservative and Liberal can even swap over time. The American Revolution was driven by radical Liberal Activists, driven by the new, untried idea of man governing himself, and with the British being the Conservative force, a type of governance that has worked for over a thousand years. Now, modern American Conservatism is the custodian of those then Colonial Liberal beliefs. That's because the new form of government the Colonies developed have been a success and in place for a long period of time. American Liberalism has since gone off looking for something better, putting it's gaze on more Socialistic forms of government. Foreign Liberalism, on Socialism in various forms and Communism by extremists.

American Conservatism believes in equal opportunity, equal justice, individualism and charity. It holds in great reverence the Constitution and it's ideals of limited federal government and natural (individual) rights. Individual rights are those inherent in the people and do not need an outside enabler (like government) to make them work. It also believes in the power and ability of free market principles to make everyones life better. Although these are principles on Conservatism, it is also pragmatic to bend to a certain extent to non-Conservative principles that may already be in place. For instance, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be over-steps of limited Federal government, but they are willing to live with them and just reform them from the bloated, bureaucratic, wasteful mess they are. Neither would it want to go back to the pure market-driven, exploitative days of the Industrial Revolution. Conservatism has no problem with natural inequity in life, just as long as individuals are not blocked or impeded in their rising above those inequities. The implied Constitutional mandate of the proper role of government, being the protection of rights and liberties of it's citizens is the mechanism that support this. This does not guarantee happiness, but it protects their pursuit of it. The individual's abilities are what determines how far they can go. For those who have difficulty, there is charity, even a hand-up from government to a certain extent, but not a handout. Compassion is not measured by how many people can be taken care of by government, but by how many DON'T have to be taken care of by government, trapped by welfare.

Liberalism believes in equal outcome, social justice, collectivism and government welfare. It believes that government should be as active as possible in helping it's citizens as much as possible with cradle-to-grave programs. It believes government must take an active role in removing as many inequities of life as possible. Society must change to support this system of "help". Liberalism believes in human (collective) rights. These kind of rights requires government to supply them and people are entitled to these type of rights. Liberals want redistribution of wealth and envision the role of big-business to serve more directly as more employee support centers and less profit centers, working in “partnership” with government as outlets for government social policies.
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