what's the difference between a conservative, a liberal and an independent?

Answer 1

Conservatives: In nature they favor big business, they also favor anti-abortion,
Liberals: Favor pro-life, Favor people
Independent: that is a tricky question becuase not all independents think alike. They favor fact over inaccuracy.

Answer 2

Nobody here knows what they are talking about -- especially the $5 example guy. A liberal would offer the guy $5 from their pocket and hope the homeless man uses it wisely. A conservative would walk past the homeless man because they are not responsible for the homeless man.

Conservatives hate giving. They want to give the least amount of tax away and keep as much of their wages as possible.

A Liberal is willing to pay a higher tax to help improve the world.

Many people think people don t try hard enough to work and they are not willing to pay for them. An enormous amount of people with that view votes Conservative. That is the number one reason for voting Conservatively.

There are heaps of people willing to pay higher taxes to help the poor. However, many people have no idea what they are talking about or voting for so naturally doing what is best for one s self wins quite a lot of the time. The biggest problem is people don t always agree that the Liberal way does improve the world.

Those with brains know that a combination of capitalism and conservatism leads top the wealth being in the hands of a few and there being nothing but rich and poor. That is not a good world to be creating.

Answer 3

A liberal and a conservative walk down the street and come upon a homeless man. The Conservative take $5 from his pocket and tells the man to come see him to get a job. The Liberal takes $10 from the conservative's pocket and tells the man where to file for benefits. Seriously the liberal feels the government can be an agent of social change and the government has a responsibility to fund social actions. The conservative is pretty much happy with the way things are and places emphasis on personal responsibility and less government intervention.

Answer 4

Conservatives believe that capitalism provides well for all the needs of the country, and the government should butt out and let it run without constraint.

Liberals believe that unrestrained business has wrought great evils on this country in the past, and must be legally held to laws that protect the public, and that some services are too critical to trust to the market, and should be performed by the government.

Independents understand neither policy and seek to find a good candidate of personal integrity for each office.

Answer 5

I can't really answer this. Conservative is more right leaning, liberal more left, and independent is a swing voter.

Answer 6

Conservative
(adjective)
1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
Liberal
(adjective)
1. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
2. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
Independent--Affiliated with or loyal to no one political party or organization.

In general, the Republican agenda is one of political (not moral) conservatism and the Democratic agenda is one of political (not moral) liberalism. These agendas are focused on the role of government in its citizens' lives.

Answer 7

A conservative is someone who has very restrictive and staunch political and moral beliefs, usually based on Christian or at least traditional American standards of living.

A liberal is someone who is much more inclusive and sympathetic to the lifestyle choices, and therefore legal or political demands, of various groups.

An independent is someone who does not necessarily subscribe to either of the aforementioned standpoints in their totality, and therefore does not declare full loyalty to either side.

Answer 8

independents learn about the politics of both parties and try to be in the middle on issues,,,,think for themselves rather than paid cronies, like Republicans,, more conservative than Democrats

Answer 9

It seems like in this day, there really isn't much of a dffierence. All party's are run by special interested and multinational corporations.

Answer 10

"Liberals: Favor pro-life,"

That is such a pile. Liberals are pro-abortion, which numbers approx 1.3 million people killed per year in the US, 94%+ of which are nothing more than after the fact birth control.

Now, here's an old saying that might help you answer your question:

"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."

This is because liberals are bred on college campuses by extremist liberal college professors that seem to get crazier by the day:
http://www.rightwinged.com/2006/04/unhinged_teachers_professors_o_1.html

Most of these liberals grew up in their priveleged little lives, never having been in the real world knowing what it means to work and provide for themselves. (of course this is a generalization, but pretty accurate). They start out as essentially "big kids", meaning they haven't been in the real world to even understand any real issues.

It has been well documented by countless studies that teachers and professors are liberal by like 9 or 10 to 1. They present their biased view to students who have nothing else to compare it to. They wouldn't think that these teachers would lie to them, and school is supposed to be about teaching FACTS, like proper language, math, science (but that's a whole other thing). But politics is opinion, and when you present only one side, you're robbing the students of the chance to be truly informed and make up their own minds.

Setting that aside, liberals essentially believe that an unborn child is not a child, so they have no problem killing it (abortion)... Evidence continues to show that younger and younger "fetuses" could survive outside the womb, and new technology allows us a glimpse inside the womb to see just how much of a "life" it truly is, even in the early weeks of pregnancy. To this liberals pull out extreme rare cases to oppose an abortion ban, saying "oh, should we force teenage girls to carry have a baby after being rapped by their fathers!?".. This is ridiculous, and those matters could be discussed later, but as we know, 94%+ abortions are simply birth control.

Beyond abortion, liberals think that people who make more money should be forced to pay extremely higher percentages of tax on the money they earn. Look at the tax brackets, even after the Bush tax cuts the "rich" are paying a much higher percentage (not just amount, but PERCENTAGE) than the rest of us... is that fair?
http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/article/0,,id=150856,00.html

Liberals want these percentages to go even higher, and then promise the money to lower income people, essentially in exchange for votes. This is why liberals have the poor/minority vote locked. They promise more money, in turn these people vote for liberals, and this is repeated every election. Conservatives would like to see people take "personal responsibility" (a staple of conservativism) and make things happen for themselves with fewer hand outs which keep taxes high.

Liberals also ignore the fact that we've had record setting tax revenue, even with the tax cuts... how? Tax cuts are good for business, they help business grow and hire employees.. more pay checks means more taxes being paid. Unemployment is lower than the average of the past 4 decades... it's not coincidence, especially considering Bush took over shortly before the Clinton/Gore recession officially became a "recession" after months of negative economic growth. Even after having 9/11, nasty hurricane seasons, $3 gas, the economy has continued to "surprise" economists, over and over for the past few years. I'm too lazy to look it up right now but I think we've created like 5.5 million jobs in just over the last two and a half years. The housing boom is starting to slow, but this is natural after 5 years of record setting, but it's not "crashing" as the media has been predicting month after month for the past two years. GDP, GNP, etc. etc. I'm bored with economy.

Liberals believe we should be attacked before we stop a growing threat. They know they have the media on their side and it won't hold them accountable for their previous statements so they call Bush a liar on WMDs, saying Iraq was for oil (yeah, like it's really helped gas prices)... But the fact is they spent over a decade making even stronger WMD arguments about Iraq than Bush ever did.. this includes both Clintons, Rockefeller, Kerry, Ted Kennedy, etc. etc. etc. Clinton even struck Iraq based on the same information, making almost identical statements to Bush, and after he (CLINTON) signed the Iraq Liberation Act, making regime change our official policy on Iraq. Clinton even answered the liberals repeated question today "why not other WMD countries?"... Because Saddam has shown he likes to use them. I won't even get in to the obviousness that the WMDs were there and were moved, most likely to Syria, and most likely with the help of Russian military... because that's another huge side story.

But liberals would have screamed if Saddam sold some WMDs (that virtually all the world agreed were there) to Al Qaeda, and they got it here and killed thousands of Americans. They would have said that Bush should have attacked Iraq based on our WMD intelligence, but he wasn't tough on fighting terror. Democrats are hypocrites on every issue, but this is whats really frustrating. Just like with the border. If a dirty bomb comes across the border, the libs will scream that it's Bush's fault, even though they are 10 times weaker on the border and scream racism, etc. when we talk about putting a wall and militarizing the border.

I'm actually getting really bored with this whole thing, but the gist of it is conservatives are your average real world guy who takes responsibility for his own actions and life path. Liberals whine and protest and money and daddy general pay the bills. Liberals are venomous and hatefilled, and reveal their unhinged minds day after day. Liberals are a few steps away from commies. they'd like to steal from the rich and give to the poor, even though this is a proven flawed idea (welfare)... Whatever, I'm beginning to think you don't have enough background if you're asking such a question and I'm probably wasting my time... because we could talk for days on dozens of different issues and how and why each side takes the stance they do.