Is the GOP an approximate equivalent to the Tory party here in UK?

Question

Am trying to sort meself out for the sake of the kids and I think being interested in politics would start me off being involved and civic minded so no the kids wont end up in Borstal like their mum and anyway it wasn't really my fault that I got sent to juvy hall, cause Alyson was really jealous and she snitched when I only got the freebies from the mall and never really pinched nufink.

Answer 1

Not exactly, but that's as close a parallel as you can make with the Democrats sort of like the Laborites.

Yesterday's election would be a lot like a no confidence but bush will not do the gentlemanly thing and step down, the next election will be in 2008.

Answer 2

Sorta... The GOP/Republican Party is conservative and the Democratic Party is left wing. The Democrats favor the Western European socialist government model. Their strongest supporters are African Americans and the poor. Whoever benefits most from government handouts generally supports the Democrats. Universities in the USA are populated with liberals and Marxists; intellectual conservatives think of many campuses here in the USA as political indoctrination zones. I went to school as a Libertarian and believe me it was tough. A few teachers (one in particular was especially bad) made the atmosphere difficult for me. A kid who goes to college without a set of core beliefs that he can back up has a tough time not coming out either apathetic towards politics or a left winger. Finally, there are the old southern socially conservative Democrats. Robert Byrd, the Senior Senator from West Virginia, was once an "Exalted Cyclops" in the Ku Klux Klan. I would not be surprised if he took part in a lynching or two in his day...

The Republicans are also a mixed bag. The most loyal group of Republican voters are Evangelical Christians, and the party panders to these folks more than anyone else. There is also a large Libertarian/Small Government wing of the party. Some older political families in the Republican Party are liberal/leftist, mainly in the Northeast (though a few of them were voted out yesterday). Believe me when I say this: the Republicans who lost are not the party their supporters wanted out of them. Barry Goldwater and Ron Reagan were the best examples people the Republican base would like to see in power...

American politics sucks. People are led to believe that if they vote 3rd party their vote is wasted, so most wind up not voting 3rd party. At the same time, most centrists do not vote in the primaries. We are left with candidates that are more talk than anything else. My personal idea to fix this would be to require each voter to pass a "literacy test" like the ones they used to give to only black people in the south so only informed people could vote, but I could ramble on that one for a long while....

Your country has a lot of good papers (best in the English speaking world, I say) that could more than familiarize you with American politics. I'm an American who subscribes to The Economist....

Answer 3

I don't know, but I'm inclined to think that it isn't.

Answer 4

GOP IS FAR WORSE..................