What is the Right-wing and Left-wing agenda in your opinion?

[Don M]

[David]

there is no fixed agenda. politics is always a mixture of beliefs, with the possibility of consensus and accommodation.

[WinonaGal]

Rather than defining each of their agenda's, what I will share with you is that that average American that is NOT on the news is kind of in the middle of it all.
There are far left and far right individuals always on the news and there are fear tactics being used to make us think that all of them think one way. I'm pretty unhappy with how Republicans are being portrayed by the media right now and it is one major stretch of the truth.

[broadtiger764]

Generally speaking here in the U.S. is goes like this:

Right-wing: Promote Christianity, low taxes, small government, gun rights, "traditional" values, traditional marriage, life over choice, death penalty, capitalism and a free market.

Left-wing: Promote secularism, progressiveness, science, government regulations, choice over life, anti-death penalty, gay rights, social safety nets and are anti-corporations.

[Ryan]

Left wing: a new America, socialism, the collective good, larger government.

Right wing: personal responsibility, constitutional rights, smaller less intrusive government.

[john]

The left wing agenda is to derail and overthrow Capitalism and usher in a Marxist society.

The right wing agenda is to maintain free market capitalism and open more markets to trade.

[whisperingsummer008]

The conservative belief that liberals want wealth equality is a self-induced hallucination. Liberals want a true equality of opportunity.

The conservative philosophy of government was best stated by President Coolidge: “The chief business of the American people is business.” He was wrong. The business of our nation is exactly and only that found in the preamble to our Constitution: “to... promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

Times change but the Founding Liberals can’t change with them. They wrote what they wrote, and the most important word in the preamble to the Constitution is “Posterity”. The Founding Liberals understood why we are here on Earth: survival of the species is the motivating force of life.

A nation without a thriving young generation faces its doom. Care of the young is the highest priority of all the creatures on earth - except Conservatives. Care of our young must not end at birth. Post-natal care must also be the highest priority of federal, state, and local government.

Government must provide children with health care, education, and homes in a secure neighborhood. Children, from conception through university, must get all the health care, food, shelter, and play they need and as much education as they can absorb. Care of the young is a civilization’s wisest investment.

A thriving young generation must include all children regardless of the wealth or poverty of their homes. Providing excellent care only for children of the rich will not produce enough brilliant leaders in technology, industry, and government. If you want all the cream, you have to milk all the cows. (Ninety-nine percent of all discoveries are found by one percent of all scientists.) A level playing field and equal opportunity from the moment of conception are the liberal’s core beliefs.

The health, education, and shelter of the young are more important than the leisure activity of the rich. Tax the tax havens! Eliminate tax-free municipal bonds and loop-holes for hedge-fund managers and their money-changing brethren in the temple!

Support for children by local taxes inevitably results in deprived areas, from Watts to Mississippi. To be equitably distributed, care of the young must be financed by progressive federal taxation. Commensurate with their means, all Americans, together as one, must share the load. Fairness and cooperation are the liberal’s core beliefs.

Conservatives hold the opposite view. They believe children should be rewarded or punished depending on how well or how poorly they choose their parents. They want the care of the young to be financed by local taxes so that school quality varies with class and so that science education is stunted by fundamentalist school boards. Is it a wonder that, according to the National Academy of Sciences report, while half of GDP growth depends on technology, the US is rated 48th in science and math education?

Instead of taxing wealthy estates, consisting mostly of untaxed capital gains and municipal bond interest, conservatives would endow the least productive segment of society: children of the rich. Since Congress can be bought, wealth is power and inherited wealth is inherited power, aristocracy, the exact opposite of democracy, the exact opposite of meritocracy. This is dishonesty and corruption. Conservatism is a crime against Nature.

The human race succeeded only because evolution gave it enough intelligence to understand the value of community: the solidarity of the clan, the tribe, and larger groups that does not exist among other primates. We succeeded only because we took care of each other through fire and flood.

Conservatives want to destroy that social solidarity. While the economic burden of disease far exceeds that of weather, does it make sense that we help communities struck by a tornado but not individuals struck by cancer? Now, Conservatives want to defund FEMA! Come hell or high water, you're on your own! Conservatism is a crime against Nature.

Conservatives believe the tax burden should be shifted from the rich to the middle class, from capital to labor. They would create a polarized generation: a small aristocracy and a large underclass — a lost generation. Conservatism is a complete betrayal of Posterity and the Founding Liberals.

[Falstaff]

It's all "so-called", i.e. fronting, in the case of the Right.

The Right Wing agenda claims to be "the party of morality" but is installed some decades past to protect the interests of the ultrawealthy. They cover up their tracks by selling mom and pop on hot button issues like abortion (which no election will ever change -- it's in SCOTUS's court) and gay marriage.

The Left Wing is what it is. It promotes fairness, equality, and each member of society being responsible, to a common-sense degree, for the well-being of all the other members of society.

Hope this helps.

[Ron and Mandy]

right wingers- fighting for the rich. and that's it. during the fiscal cliff. that's all they have really fought or talked about. left wingers- everything else. but not the rich. i am pretty sure they don't think millionaires and billionaires are going to have trouble putting food on the table if they don't get tax breaks. unlike republicans seem to think rich people will die or go broke if they have to pay the same tax as the middle class or just pay taxes. i agree with democrats. recently i thought republicans were for freedom and less government until some of them came out with a plan to make it a lot easier to put people in a mental hospital for there whole life. now that takes peoples freedom, its more government and also adds debt to the deficit. which also makes them the fiscally irresponsible. as well as john banner only put up 850 billion to pay the debt. while Obama put up 1. 6 trillion.

[myrrdin 810]

right wing agenda: regulate individuals to compel them to dress, act, and believe exactly as they believe.

left wing agenda: regulate uber-wealthy multinational corporations to prevent them from pouring cyanide into municipal water supplies.