is the USA a predominantly conservative country? and if so what is this "conservatism" based on?

Question

economics?
foreign policy?
domestic policy?

I don't think we are and I am not a "Liberal" I am a spit in your fascist face progressive! get it straight..

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2005/07/b873695.html

the only Anti Americanism I see on here is that of the violence tinged "Neocon" rantings..
I have never once seen a liberal (hate that word) talk about firing squads, or hangings and stretched necks for the other side and yet .. just in the last hour or so I have seen several such slurs leveled at the "liberal" questioner or answerer..

so are you conservative or Liberal...

and for all you middle of the roaders.. you'll have to make choice in 2008 so don't bother diluting this question.. have some stones and take a stand on one side or the other.

Answer 1

America is mostly a progressive or liberal nation. Unfortunately, many people don't vote (or can't for any number of reasons) and the cons get a chip on their shoulders because they tend to think that the slice of the population that does vote is strictly a representative slice of the population (which is due to their lack of general statistical and scientific understanding),

Now that's just based on raw political ideology. Let's put it this way, though. If you analyze platform and policy, and who those policies benefit... if people actually based their political ideologies on their own best interests, every country in the world would be about 99% progressive and perhaps 1% conservative.

Sadly, people are brainwashed and ignorant, so it doesn't cut that way exactly. But we're still a more educated than average country overall (and depending on the region being discussed) so we still tend to lean liberal, and younger generations are leaning more liberal than previous generations, so the future remains ours.

Edit: Jay, Bush "won" with a margin so slim statistically you couldn't fit a piece of paper through it edgewise. And that's just during the second election. He didn't even win the first election, but it defaulted to him as a result of stopped recounts. Even then, he lost the majority vote in the first election regardless. And even then there were so many statistical anomolies in those elections that they should have been declared invalid and done over with third-party oversight, the same way that we handle elections in other nations.

So your premise is flawed. Highly, completely, and totally flawed.

Not to mention the belief that the democrats are representative of the extreme left is, well, completely and totally wrong as well. You really think that the democrats are hard liner Communists?

...it boggles the mind that someone could harbor such a lack of understanding.

Answer 2

I agree with the Dems that we need to end the war in Iraq, and I guess I am considered a liberal, but they keep telling me to put on my tin foil hat because of the Conspiracy theory I have seen too much proof about and am a believer in. I want freedom for my kids, and for this country, and I am a true patriot because I question authority and I don't lay down and get steamrollered over just because my view doesn't agree with the 20% who happen to love President Bush-wacky. 80% is the group I'm with, the group that believes Pres Wacky is an idiot who is a power Monger who'll stop at nothing to make the folks who really run this country happy (Rockafellers, Chase..etc. I have open eyes to go with my open mind, and my nose agrees because something smells shiddy around here..

Answer 3

Blame Yahoo! for not having a real question and answer forum like google has with moderated questions. This is all to boost and promote Yahoo popularity and Yahoo 360 too. Yahoo was founded in the US which may be a reason that most users on here are from the US and US adolescents have less respect and manners than their worldly counterparts, hence the immature answers.

Answer 4

To the guy who talked about if America was primarily conservative, we would still be singing God Save The Queen, the question was, is America primarily conservative NOW, not were its beginnings conservative or liberal. I believe we have changed as a country. We were at first liberal and revolutionary, but then those with sense among us realized that while to START a new enterprise you have to be hot blooded and revolutionary, to keep it going steadily, you need to be conservative, to keep things going and not "rock the boat" more than necessary. That's just a fact of life. I personally am a conservative and am really not sure what a moderate is, except someone without the guts to make a stand.

Answer 5

Well you should have been on here about 12hrs ago it was 100% worse with the liberal hate fest going on. I'm a Conservative. I think the majority is moderate. The reason Bush was elected back to back is because the democrats are to far left. Any farther and they would fall off the chart. Until they get more moderate they will keep losing. Bush was extremely beatable in the last election and the best the democrats could come up with is Kerry? I know several older die hard democrats that cant stomach how far left their beloved party has gone.

Answer 6

Our country's fore fathers were radicals.

They had the integrity to do what was right, inspite of overwhelming odds. (yes,the brits were odd)

So in terms of conservatism. There is a shared experience factor that unites a lot of people.
I have spoken with people and they (not me) start with the "conservative" politics. They don't know, aren't aware of the labels. They DO know that if it swims like a fish and smells like a fish, there's a good chance it's a fish.
Roots are all around us. Just ask anyone.

Answer 7

Please don't think America is base on the Con's point of view this disturbs the majority of us. They "talk" God in the same breath speak hate, violence and murder. By no means is this an accurate view of America. Commons sense does rule even over the maddening mental squall of so called Christian Con's marching for God.

Answer 8

If America was conservative, we would all still be singing "God save the queen."

America, founded by liberals for liberals.

Answer 9

Yea, go GW Bush