Taking a Look at Political Ideologies

The terms liberal and conservative more widely apply to the Democratic Party, which generally upholds liberal principles and the Republican Party, which generally upholds conservative principles.

The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States. I associate myself as a Democrat for the reason of their liberal views. The Democratic Party tends to be more liberal and support the views like same sex marriage, immigration, and social and economic equality. Many of the views the party stands for and beliefs tie to my beliefs. Some of the key priorities of the Democratic Party are the Economy, Poverty and Homelessness, Education, Healthcare Policy, Social Security and Medicare, Immigration, and Gun Policy.

I learned that the Republican Party was founded in 1854 and the first woman in congress was Jeannette Rankin.

The Republican Party believes that the government should not have a big part in the average American's life. They believe in taxes being lowered and less spending on social programs, they believe in the advancement of women in the military, marriage should be between man and woman.The republican party also believes that criminals can't cause harm or damage to anybody or anything if they are locked behind bars, that the death penalty should be enforced on major criminals and big drug kingpins, that our taxes should be going towards cleaning up our environment and finding better energy sources. They believe that we should help poor nations, that Americans should have a right to firearms without having to obtain a license to posses one, that the government should open more public land for hunting, that we should track each foreign traveler and should not have aerial surveillance over U.S soil, That increasing our minimum wage makes our country more competitive.

An ideology is extremely important to have in a lifetime. Ideologies can shape a person’s actions, motivations, and goals. A person’s belief is a major contribution to their identity and can change it substantially. But sometimes a person’s ideology can lead to extreme actions and people could be harmed. Many terrorist attacks and wars are caused an extreme ideology of a leader with lot’s of power. There has also an abundance of acts of peace that ideology allows. Gandhi believed in peace and acted because of his ideology. People in some places in the world are willing to give up their identity and ideology and become controlled by extreme leaders. Ideologies are very important

“The modern Democratic Party is the descendant of the Democratic-Republican Party, an early-nineteenth-century political organization led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Also known as the Jeffersonian Republican Party, the Democratic-Republican Party began as an antifederalist group, opposed to strong, centralized government. The party was officially established at a national nominating convention in 1832. It dropped the Republican portion of its name in 1840.” As stated in the free dictionary’s definition of the democratic party. The Democrat and Republican parties have differences as well as similarities such as their views on government decisions.

On the other hand, the Democratic Party generally supports workers’ rights and government programs to help people in need. The democrats are for same-sex marriage and fight for their equality. They feel that our economy should help everyone not just the wealthy, and that big business and corporations pay their fair share of taxes. In addition, they want to prevent business from taking advantage of the public. Democrats feel that there are better ways to make peace with terrorism such as through diplomacy and only using force when necessary. They also believe that we should not have to

A belief system is a set of ideas that a person uses to make sense of the world around us. Science can be defined as a way of looking at the natural world, which is systematic, objective and capable of generating universal laws. Ideology is a systematic set of beliefs, which serve the interests of a social group in society. It is often associated with the ‘power’ and the ability of those at the top of the society to put forward their own ideas as right. These ideas could be distorted, partially true and put forward for a purpose.

Their beliefs are based on individual rights and justice. They believe in a strong military, illegal gay marriage, to help small businesses, to lower taxes, and to use our resources we have here like coal and oil. They are backed up by three major states: Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. The Democrats are more to the left and are liberal. They believe in minimum wages and progressive taxation and higher tax rates for higher income brackets.

the democrats want to scale down government spends on the national defense budgt to help with other things such as health care because the U.S. spends more on our military than any other country in the world. Now with the heath care, democrats want all of the U.S. citizens to be able to get the healthcare they need and deserve. the democrats also want to bring renewable energy into the new world with solar panels and wind energy while cutting our independence on foreign oil. the democrats want to make collage more affordable for all so everyone can get the same opportunities. Basically democrats thing the economy is to complicated and think government officials should guide big business decisions.

Conservative is a person who advocates minimal intervention by government in social and economic matters and who gives a high priority to reducing taxes and public spending. Libertarian is one who is conservative on economic issues, liberal on personal conduct issues. Liberal is one who favors more government regulation of business and support for social welfare but less regulation of private social conduct. Liberals want government to focus on doing what is "good," including providing what is often referred to as "social justice." To do that, among other policies, liberals expect government to tax corporations and "wealthy" and "high income" citizens heavily to pay for the social justice programs and regulate business and personal behavior

Ideology has been a controversial concept for a long time. Andrew Heywood, has defined it as “a more or less coherent set of ideas that provides a basis for organized political action”. Unsurprisingly, liberalism, socialism and conservatism, which appeared due to different historical and social environments to serve different goals, have disparate opinions on ideologies. According to Heywood’s summarization in Political Ideologies: An Introduction, the liberals claimed that ideology is a repressive belief system with official acknowledgements to provide a monopoly of truth; the conservatives argued that ideology is abstracted from reality, showing the arrogance of rationalism; the socialists, following Marx’s views, claimed that it conceals the conflicts of classes, preventing the proletariat from recognizing the fact that they are exploited. These classical ideologies are disparate not only in the way they view the ideology but also in many other aspects.

Ideology is “a set of opinions or beliefs of a group or individual. Very often ideology refers to a set of political beliefs or a set of ideas that characterize a particular culture.” What will be discussed is the political side of Ideology(or better known as Political Ideology), which is a very controversial “hot-topic” issue, that is always being discussed in any setting. In the United States, there are two main sides, the Democrats and the Republicans. Democrats are “a member of the Democratic Party or someone who believes in equality for all people and ruling by the majority.” A Republican is “an advocate of a republic” which is “where you live in a country with a leader who was freely and democratically elected by the people, as

Political societies are guided by laws which protect and dictate the common good. Some political theorists, like John Locke, believe that the legitimacy of these derive from extra legal standards that define the common good. I, like Locke, believe that there are extra legal standards that set boundaries for legitimate laws. Humans are naturally born freely and equally to survive and reproduce. Given that it is in the common interest of individuals to survive freely and equally, they form political societies to protect this natural freedom and equality. Therefore, all legitimate laws made in these societies, like these societies themselves, derive off the extra-legal notion of surviving and reproducing as a species in freedom and equality.

In the world of politics, there are two main political parties in the U.S. These two parties are conservatives and liberals. Conservatives are traditionally the Republican Party while liberals are the Democratic Party. Conservatives want to maintain the traditional values and want to conserve existing structure. Conservatives support limited government involvement in the private sphere, lower taxes, and free market (a disadvantage for minorities). Liberals are more “open to progress and highly reliant in the government to solve problems” (Squadrin 4). Liberals support more active role of government, policies to aid minorities and equal opportunity for all human beings. Both parties have opposing views when it comes to economic, political and social issues.