What are the values behind a Democrat and Republican.?

Question

No trash talk please, just values as YOU SEE.

Answer 1

Values....

Dem- Freedom,
a) freedom of speech
b) freedom of press
c) freedom from government intervention in personal and private matters
ie choice of partners, sex of partners, type of intercourse, whether to use contraction, when to have children, or even if.


Rep- Limted Freedom,
a) limted freedom of speech, especially contreversial speech
b) limted freedom of press, critism, accountablity will not be tolerated.
c) limted choices in the gender of your partner, and choices in deciding when to have children or if.


Values.........

Dem -Tolerance
1) Tolerance and acceptance of people who are diffrent
a)immgration- there is a middle ground
b)race- belief all should have an level playing field
c)sexal prefrence- equall under the eye of the law
d) income- programs to protect the weakest in society

Rep- Limited Tolerance
2) Tolerance of people who are most similar to them
a) there is no middle ground- only the extreme.
b)tokenism
c) national amemdements to bann certain marriages
d) policies that mostly benifit the most priviledged of society and corprate welfare


Values:
Dems- Families
1) health care
2) Education
3) Pro Union and workers
4) Clean enviroments

Rep - Upper Income Families
1) private sector
2) Standarized test
3) Pro Corparation protection
4) Corparte right to polute and ease of restrictions.

Answer 2

This is a curious question. I think a better question would be: What are the values behind a liberal and conservative?

The Democratic and Republican parties are political entities which share the same primary objective: achieve political dominance. Because of this thier values will be greatly affected by popular opinion. Just ask the Democrats about thier position on slavery. It is certainly different than thier position in 1860. This may be a bit of an extreme example, but it clearly illustrates the fact that the values and positions of political parties are very fluid. Even within the parties themselves. Remember the "Yellow Dog Democrats". During the Civil Rights Era these were elements of the Democratic Party that strongly resisted the values that the rest of the party held.

It is impossible to identify even one thing that all members of a political party will agree upon. Abortion? There are members of the Republican party who believe it should remain legal. Gay marriage? There are many Democrats that oppose this.

This is a question that I believe to be unanswerable.

Answer 3

The Republican Party started out as anti-cheap labor (slaves/immigrants), pro middle class (which most of them were) and that government was bad (although recently they seem to outspend the Democrats).

The Democrats are the upperclass and the lower class, that believes in government helping the people. Poor people vote Democrat because of the nice welfare checks they get.

There are splits in the parties (for instance there are gay Republicans called the Lincoln logs) and the Democratic leadership put the U.S. in more wars.

Answer 4

Liberals, Democrats, Socialists - look to government to solve everyone's problems. Generally believe that most of the worlds problems would go away if we could all just get along. All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Conservatives, Republicans, Capitalists - look to individuals to solve their own problems. Generally believe that the world is ruled by force because there is evil in the world and it must be stopped. World peace is a fantasy.

This is pretty idealistic and general but generalizations make things easy in this case...

Answer 5

I think you can separate the values of the Democratic and Republican PARTIES, but not between individual Democrats and Republicans. I think most people who are members of either party have ideological beliefs outside of their own, and are really more of a patchwork of values between the two.

At least that's what I tell myself, it helps me sleep at night to believe that there actually are sane people in this country who don't treat their political parties as their gospel.

Answer 6

Depends who your talking about. Republican voters are decent hard working people. Democratic voters are decent hard working people. Republican politicians are liars who tell there people they will cut big government, stop abortions and several other promisises then do nothing. Democrats are liars who promise to end poverty, put everybody in a great job and make life wonderfull and then do nothing. So pick the lie you like the most and vote.

Answer 7

Democrats - Raising the minimum wage, accountability for the Bush Administration

Republicans - Playing golf with lobbyists during odd numbered years and talking about federal marriage amendments and flag burning amendments during even numbered years

Answer 8

Back in the day, Repubs were for small centralized gov. and states rights, and Dems for larger gov. With all the new agencies W. has created, and stripping states rights (IE medical marijuana), values have shifted as certain things become bigger problems, and some problems get solved (or ignored). Their all crooked, they just market themselves to a different crowd.

Answer 9

Traditionally Republicans have been for small government in business. They believe that the market itself will guide itself through competition. Recently they have become more interested in governing morality, believing that the people need to be governed to act moral.
Democrats have traditionally been known for social support through government programs including welfare, for poor, education, and controls on business in order to guaranty fairness in wealth distribution. On the other hand, Democrats have been known as liberal on moral issues, preferring to keep government out of peoples personal morals, with the exception of rehabilitation of criminals.

Answer 10

They are two sides of the same coin - big business

Whichever candidate that can raise the most funds by promising their allegiance to big business will be put forward by their party, and the most corrupt candidate from the two parties will have raised the most funds, and will produce the biggest campaign to discredit his opponent, and will be elected president.