Essay On Republican Party

Outside of the political spectrum, there is another group of organizations that have perhaps and even stronger grasp on the media than media regulators themselves. The incredibly complex and well organized drug cartels that base themselves mostly in northern Mexico and along the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico are in many ways the most influential organizations in the nation’s media. As mentioned earlier, Mexican citizens were granted freedom of the press in the 1857 Federal Constitution giving them expressional rights that closely resembled the United States’ on paper. However, as the cartels ran rampant throughout the country some indirect restrictions were put on these rights. The cartels employ ruthless violence and torture in order to punish those who oppose them, including journalists and reporters who attempt to portray them in a negative light. Over the past decade “there have been ‘172 attacks on press freedom, including nine journalists and two media workers killed’” (Hernandez-Garcia 2012). As a result, anyone reporting on the drug wars is essentially risking his or her own life; a risk the majority of reporters are not willing to take. The fear of being found and captured by the cartel is enough to cause a chilling effect among reporters and even stop some news outlets from reporting on the cartel’s actions at all. That’s not to say that news of the cartels’ actions doesn’t get released to the public. Lepe summarized the media portrayals of the cartel as such:

The growing ideological gap between the United States’ two major political parties, in other words, rising levels of political polarization, has had a negative impact on American politics as it results in Congressional inefficient, public apathy, and economic inequality.

Increased shifts to the political extremes causes voters to vote in lockstep with party leaders. Polarized voters are less informed on energy, healthcare, education, and other key issues4. Polarized voters also ignore fundamental arguments in favor of partisanship. When told that their party endorsed a certain stance, the polarized voters became more supportive, regardless of facts. Because the election process requires

Radical Republicans believed that blacks were entitled to equal political opportunities and rights as whites. They also believed that Confederate leaders should be punished for what they did in the Civil War. People like representative Thaddeus Stevens and Senator Charles Sumner were extremely against Andrew Johnson's lenient policies and thought the federal government stuck its nose in state affairs too much. However, they grew tired of waiting for a change and took a direct intervention into state affairs. These Radicals believed that blacks must be given the chance to engage in a free-labor economy. In 1866, Congress created a bill to prolong the existence of the Freedmen's Bureau and then began to develop a Civil Rights bill. However, President Johnson was completely against it and vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau Bill. He said it would make the government too big. He also vetoed the Civil Rights Bill. Many Republicans were flabbergasted at how racist Johnson was.

Now in this process, the party candidates do not have to focus on the centrist groups because their main voters are located at both ends of the extremes in the political spectrum. Knowing this and mastering the gerrymandering strategy, any potential political party candidate can dominate any safe-zone that was created in their favor. Now the candidates only had to briefly mention their stance on women's rights, gay rights, global warming, etc... and the Democrats would give them their vote. On the other hand, Republicans only had to mention a reduction of taxes, mention how great the old days were and that the United States needed to look to the past in order to bring back traditional values and many would get fired up and guarantee their

As individuals, we turn towards political parties to identify with a group that has the most in common with our own values and principals. Each political party’s agenda focuses on the primary interests affiliated with that party and is motivated to enact its beliefs and interests through legislation by electing officials into government. Texas is a large state with four political parties: Republican, Democratic, Green Party, and Libertarian. Each political party has a basic fundamental ideology and platform on current issues. The two major political parties in Texas and in the nation are the Republican and Democratic parties.Texas is a conservative state where the Republican Party has known success as the leading political party in

Over the past three decades, the distance between parties has continued to grow steadily. As their distances increase it has become harder for presidents to receive votes from both parties.

The Republican party or Grand Old Party (GOP), for over 150 years, has maintained itself as a major political party within the United States of America. As a whole, the republican party follows the belief of military build up ,less taxes, and more importantly, a limited government. However, throughout recent years there has been an influx of conservative values being spread throughout the GOP. These values include harsh stances against: homosexuality, immigration, and abortion. This recent “conservative trend” has caused many to see the party as out of date. Ironically, it has not always been like this, as the party was once what would be defined as “liberal”. These liberal views included support of “conservatism” and universal health care(http://www.marketwatch.com/story/four-things-republicans-used-to-believe-2011-07-18). So, what happened? In short, the conservative influx in the 1950s would lead to this drastic change of views, which would lead us to today 's far right republican party. In order to-

The growing trend toward party polarization has caused increased stagnation and disorganization in the American political system. The gridlock has caused dilemmas such as government shut down, inability to pass key regulations, and general mistrust between members of opposing parties. As a result, the public heavily disapproves of the interworking of our current political system. To fix this polarization and gain support of the masses, the Republican Party should remake their political platform in four distinct ways:

Amidst the past eight years of lackluster economic advancement, America’s prowess and respect declining worldwide, increasing government involvement in daily lives, and a President seemingly unwilling to take a solid stance on a the global threat of terrorism, the transfer of power between political parties in the White House is not so stunning. Due to the two-party system, this is not an unprecedented phenomenon. The American people are constantly seeking a political party to garner their attention and adapt to changing times, opinions, demographics, and attitudes (Cohen) and this results in the alternation of power between the two key political parties.

Another fundamental subject that was explored in the Republican convention was trade between America and the international community. The Republican Party noted that America was getting raw deals in many instances. They cited the case of trade between America and china in which the

Since the writing of the United States Constitution, the American government has been structured in a way that only truly allows for two parties. Of course there are numerous other smaller parties, however, the key is that these parties are smaller. The most successful way to become elected to a position in the American governmental structure is to have the backing of the Democratic or Republican Party. Over the two-hundred-year history of the United States the parties have changed names and fundamentally altered their core believes. Today, the distinction has become quite clear as the rise of polarization forces a clear, concise difference between the two parties. The Democrats must uphold the liberal ideals while the Republican Party carters to those of a conservative

Republicans had invented the nation’s system of extensive tariffs in 1861 to develop new businesses and to raise money to pay for the Civil War. After the war, the tariff became their signature issue. Republicans controlled every branch of the national government from 1861 to 1875, but in that year, Democrats took control of the House of Representatives. Republicans got nervous. For the rest of the century, they focused all their energy on staying in power so they could keep the tariff high. They insisted that, if elected, Democrats would destroy the economy by lowering

The Republican Party has had numerous attempts to move the otherwise known, GOP more right. The GOP is more favored at maintaining a "limited" government than the Democratic left side liberals who favors a government whose finances and expenses are handled by the government and other high ranking officials. The Republican party is more aimed at conservative values such as minimizing taxes, cutting back government welfare, the death penalty, government regulations of drugs and abortions, and many more. Recent attempts such as embracing non traditional issues such as cutting back government welfare and also their concerns to have the government regulate drugs and also abortions, have made a noticeable difference in public interest in the GOP

66% of Americans believe that free trade agreements between the U.S. and other countries cost the U.S. jobs.