Whats the difference ? Dem ? Rep ?

Question

I live in Florida and consider my self a Rep . because im for military and lower taxes . Alot of people here hate Dems , I dont , I just really dont know alot about them . I hear they like to tax us and give it to poor and illegals . Is that really true . Im not being a Ahole . Im seriously curious on what Dems really stand for . Im actually more an Indipendant. I really like politics and like to know what others think . Please dont just trash Bush though , that song is tired !

Answer 1

Each of the major political parties focuses on different aspects of the Constitution as most important. In the Preamble to the Constitution, there are five goals (values) of the US government: "establish Justice, to ensure domestic Tranquility, to provide for the common Defense, to promote the general Welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty"

Conservatives think the most important are "to ensure domestic Tranquility" (meaning to promote conformity with 'traditional' ways) and to "provide for the Common Defense". Most conservatives are Republicans, who (nowadays) want group rights (conformity with 'traditional' values) and a large government to ensure domestic tranquility (by enforcing those conservative majority beliefs). Moderate republicans (originally called fiscal conservatives) want a small government, just large enough to provide for the common Defense.

Liberals think it's more important to "promote the general Welfare, and ensure the blessings of Liberty". Most liberals are Democrats, who want individual rights and a large government to promote the general welfare. Moderate democrats don't want a lot of wasteful spending, and want to achieve their goals without causing too many problems. Democrats do have a Conservative wing, which focuses on better ethical leadership and greater protection for both groups and individuals. The main difference is that conservative democrats still don't believe in enforcing their views on the minority, even if their own personal choices would be the same as what conservative republicans would make.

The concept of promoting Justice is important to both camps, but their idea of justice differs. Most camps of the liberal parties believe ensuring Justice requires favoring defendants, preferring the guilty to go free rather than sending the innocent to prison. Republicans and conservatives believe the promoting Justice requires being harsh to those accused, even if that occasionally inflicts sentences on the innocent.

Interestingly, the spectrum is not linear, and has more than one dimension. There are other political parties who focus on different combinations of those values. For example, Libertarians want a small government (no wasteful spending) and very little Welfare (few if any entitlements), but strong on Defense. Libertarians also want lots of protection for individual civil rights, to secure the blessings of Liberty. They feel that Tranquility will take care of itself, and doesn’t need government enforcement of morality. As such, they are moderate about most issues, except for being adamant that the majority should not impose its beliefs on the minority, as part of their way to promote Justice.

So, it basically comes down to which sets of Constitutional values each group thinks are most important.

Answer 2

Republican choose to spend, spend, spend! the U. S. deficit has grown out of control for the previous 8 years. in fact, Bush has in no way vetoed a spending bill. This purely proves that Republicans being fiscally clever and financially conservative is an utter myth. (yet we do see one answer procuring into the myth hook, line and sinker) lol! whilst human beings are in difficulty, human beings seem to the Democrats. whilst businesses are in difficulty and want funds, they seem to the Republicans. We see this occurring precise now in our contemporary disaster.

Answer 3

Rep are for the war Dems are against