Examples Of Conservatism

President Barack Obama introduced his America’s College Promise proposal to make community college tuition-free for students in January, but Finger Lakes Community College (FLCC) President Barbara Risser did not bring it up with the collegewide governance body until October. She did not endorse it; she only asked the approximately 20 members to think about what it would mean for the school. No one responded. Mr. Obama says his proposal would expand the reach of higher education, a goal that fits with liberal ideology. Given that academics tend to lean left (Jaschik, 2012), the lack of enthusiasm for a seemingly liberal proposal on a college campus might seem unusual. This essay will review the tenets of conservatism and liberalism and explore their usefulness in predicting the impact of American’s College Promise and who might take sides for or against it. It will show the president’s proposal cannot be categorized neatly into one of the two dominant ideological camps. Wilson’s cost-benefit typology proves a more meaningful way to consider the potential ramifications of the policy and how that information could be used to refine it.

Grouping participants into categories, Abramowitz and Saunders identified ideological change among groups consisting of nonvoters, voters, low- and high-interest voters, college educated voters, and voters with some college education. The results of their study identify significant ideological shifts over ten- and twenty-year spans among educated voters, and less pronounced yet still significant ideological shifts over similar periods among the other listed groups. Ideological shifts of up to 11%, measured from a period of years between 1980 and 2004, was identified as average among all respondents (546). This trend, too, is affirmed by the Pew Research Political Polarization study, which states that “the overall share of Americans who express consistently conservative or consistently liberal opinions [has] doubled over the past two decades from 10% to 21%” (Pew, Political Polarization, Section 1). Such rates suggests that, contrary to Fiorina’s theory of elitedriven political polarization, individual political polarization—that is,

The book Rise of Conservatism in America, thoroughly presents important topics in modern American political history. The background the author displays helps the audience to understand each document provided. According to the text, the conservative movement expanded from economic conservatism to social conservatism. Liberal domestic programs were accepted which opened new opinions as opposed to traditional. Abortion has been one of the most controversial issues in America. The stand on abortion caused a strong political reaction bringing together a wide range of organizations during the conservative movement. Many of these organizations supported the pro-life movement and merged together to end abortion. Indeed, due to opposition to legal abortion, the conservative movement gained in popularity.

The 1964 election, which concluded in a victory for Lyndon B. Johnson, had far more deeper effects on the Republican Party than what is seen on the surface. This was the first Presidential election in which states considered Democratic strongholds, particularly in the south, went to Republican challenger Barry Goldwater. An explanation for this enigma was the growing presence of a new form of conservatism developing during this period. This new form of conservatism combined several schools of thought, ranging from libertarianism to social conservatism. Since it was Barry Goldwater that brought this new form of conservatism into the mainstream, both those on the left and on the right have called Barry Goldwater

The notion of American conservatism has been around roughly since the conception of The United States. Once refined in the U.S. Constitution in September of 1787, what had been left up to speculation was now set as guidelines for the flourishing country. There was always separation in beliefs between American’s, but the constitution truly outlined what America could build upon. This is where American conservatism really came into effect. Conservatism as defined by the Encyclopedia Britannica is “a political doctrine that emphasizes value of social tradition institutions and practices.” Simply meaning that this ideal represented America’s freedom - instilling that the country should always be run by ‘We The People’ as stated in the preamble to the Constitution. Once interpreted more as a preference as to how American’s could live their life, Conservatism has transformed into a distinct lifestyle at which many American’s follow today. With the notable growth of Conservatism it was only imminent that differing divisions of this practice would spark up. The differing ideologies, however, would only be separated by minimalistic technicalities. Although copious different interpretations do exist, many can be synthesized to the same ideas. Ronald P. Formisano’s The Tea Party: A Brief History underscores the significance of holding America to it’s standards set by the documents written by the Founding Fathers.

Of the 1960s time period, it was widely known for being the age of liberals, counterculture, and social reforms. Many Americans, at all socioeconomic levels, found the liberal movement to be quite disturbing. The New Left politics was more heavily focused on the idea of social turmoil, sexual revolution, and racial equality. Their advancements consisted of legalized abortion, radical feminism, gay rights, and godless school textbooks among other things. Under Reagan, his supporters believed in the righteous return to simpler, more traditional times by which priorities were different and true values prevailed. Thus, the resurgence of conservatism within American politics and government was in reaction to the liberal agenda’s domestic policies

The most expressed ideology in American law is conservatism. Conservatism is defined as being any political thought that leans towards tradition when changes are coming. American law favors tradition and rarely changes. The beginning of conservatism can be traced back to two different events. In the 16th century, Richard Hooker, a Anglican theologian, tried to put an idea similar to conservatism in place. However, it is more arguable that the origins of conservatism came from the French Revolution in 1789. There are many different types of conservatism, eight to be exact.

These groups of individuals are wired completely different from each other and operate on opposite hemispheres on a day to day basis. Thomas Jefferson figured out early on that “Liberals” and “Conservatives” have existed throughout history, and will continue to exist. America’s political society differs from other societies such as India or Austria, however every society has the same basic skeleton, meaning they share similar problems, such as deciding how leadership will be constructed and how to shape their infrastructure. A major difference between liberals and conservatives can be explained by the “negativity bias”. Research has shown through eye-tracking devices that conservatives tend to focus more on negative stimuli and for a longer a period time, whereas liberals equally split their attention between positive and negative stimuli. One could assume that the liberals would focus on positive stimuli, however that’s not the case. This is one of the reasons people believe that liberals and conservatives see the world in entirely different perspectives, not just in politics, but in all walks of life. This eye study can also point too major

United States Presidential Election is not directly elected by the voters, but electoral candidate votes. That is the reason why over half voters vote Hillary Clinton but Donald J. Trump became the 45th president of the United States. Massachusetts supported Democratic party in the presidential election 2016 with more than sixty percent approval rating without a doubt. In history from 1928 to 2016, Massachusetts has voted 19 times to democratic party and four times to Republic party. Why Massachusetts becomes a real deep-blue state in just shy of past two hundred years？There are three texts illustrate this phenomenon from historical factor and human factor.

Professor George Lakoff of Berkley University makes the argument that individual’s political reasoning is determined mainly by unconscious metaphors in his work Moral Politics. He says that the metaphor that helps develop an Americans political view is seeing the nation as a family, which will separate people into either conservatives or liberals on the political spectrum. How someone views this “family” in its ideal state will separate them to either the conservative or liberal political view. Both the conservative and liberal views ideal family models have different characteristics at their core, such as conservatives have the “strict father or positional” model and liberals have the “nurturing parent” at its core according to Lakoff.

In social psychology, a large effort of research was conducted to examine differences in political ideologies between liberals and conservatives. In Western cultures, the political spectrum is represented on a spatial axis with liberals on the left who hold more progressive values and conservatives on the right, who hold more traditional values. Ideological conflict has always been widespread among groups of people who share different beliefs. Both liberal and conservative orientated people are intolerant of outgroups and hold negative feelings towards groups whose values are inconsistent with their own beliefs (Chambers, Schlenker, & Collisson, 2013).

Neoconservatism is one of the most well-known and distinctive sociopolitical trends to emerge in the 1970s. In modern politics, many neoconservatives are often “dyed-in-the-wool” rightists; however the movement was originally conceived and shaped by a collective of former leftists and liberal Democrats who had become disillusioned with the left due to the many political struggles of the nation during the 1960s, and what they perceived as “guilt-ridden anti-Americanism embraced by the left in the wake of the anti-Vietnam War movement.” (Nuechterlein 1996) In fact, Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines neoconservative as “a former liberal espousing political conservatism.” During the 1960s, Neoconservatives were staunchly opposed to communism, the counterculture movement, particularly “the political radicalism and its animus against authority, custom, and tradition.” (Ball and Dagger 2013)

After thorough research of both major and other minor political parties, I plan to register as a Republican because none of these parties’ platforms align closely enough to my personal beliefs. I reached this conclusion after looking at all the issues that Republican has taken a stand which are economy, education and immigration.

M. Othon, the police magistrate of Oran, exemplifies the phases of existence and revolt as seen in the novel. Regarding existence, M. Othon is a viewed by the town as a conservative judge with little sympathy for lawbreakers. His conservatism is visible in that he approved of Father Paneloux’s traditional words of God’s wrath and retribution: “M. Othon, the magistrate, assured Dr. Rieux that he had found the preacher's arguments ‘absolutely irrefutable’” (100). Paneloux declared that God was punishing Oran for its sin, and Othon agreed with this due to his belief in strong punishment. His great respect for the law and obsession with punishment is evident in his conversation with Tarrou: “‘It's not the law that counts, it's the sentence. And

The three major ideologies that have dominated Western thought since the Enlightenment are conservatism, classical liberalism, and socialism. In conservatism the individual are considered not consistently rational and individuals are inherently unequal in intelligence, skills, and status. In classical liberalism the individual enjoys rights to life, liberty, and property and is able to use reason to determine the laws of nature. In socialism individuals are social and caring by nature. As for society conservatism believes individuals belong to different groups and that there is harmony when these groups are willing and able to work together, classical liberalism believes no one should be forced to accept the authority of the state, they may