What are some of the main points that separate democrats and republicans?

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Non-biased answers are appriciated!

Answer 1

Democrats believe in Empathy to focus on the needs of others instead of selfishness.

Democrats believe in Responsibility moral, legal, and finatial both individual and social.

Democrats believe in Moral action both socially and individually based.

Democrats believe the role of government is to maximize freedo, both from harm and to pursue happines to be both protector and enabler.

Democrats believe as a protector andenabler for all citizens, governmentrequires the use of the common wealth (taxes) to provide the needed infrastructure for both individuals:police, the military, disaster protection and relief, andsystemsthat permit transportaion, communication, banking, courts , fair and honest markets, and public property, education, maximization of health availablity of housing, and so on.

Democrats believe war is inherently destructive and should be avoided unless absolutely necessary.

Democrats believeMoral functionsin society require public accountability and therefore, government regulation andaccess to the courts. Privitization and deregulation of services should be avoided when moral functions are at stake such as food safety, drug safety, environmental protection, honest banking etc.

Democrats believe Moral action involves empathy and responsible action and responsible action inresponse to that empathy.

Republicans believe in moral, legal and moral responsibility.

Republicans belive chaaracter is moral strength, disipline, pig headedness.

Republicans believe everyone can act morally; all you need is dicipline like Mark Foley or Larry Craig have.

Republicans believe the laissez-faire free market is both natual and moral and its results are fair.

Republicans believe anyone can succeed in a free market; all you need is discipline that is, character.

Republicans believe the rich thus deserve their wealth and the poor, their poverty.

Republicans believe nature is a resource for human use and thus a source for making money.

Republicans believe Individual property rights outweigh any common good.

Republicans believe governmet tat seeks to help people actually harms people by giving thenm things they haven't earned, it takes away their discipline. Such government is burocratic, inhuman, oppressive, inefficient and wasteful.So it is wasteful helping small children with medical bills.

Republicans believe taxes are money that the government takes out of thepockets of hard-working citizens and then wastes. Yeah why not borrow and spend instead of tax and spend.

Republicans believe private enterprise alwaysperforms betterthangovernment and should supplant government where possible.

Republicans believe there is an absolute, clearly delineatedgood and evil, that America is inherently good.

Republicans believe war inthename of American interests is noble.

Republicans believe morality is obedience to a moral authority and a failure to obey authority should be punished. (Can I get a seig heil?)

Answer 2

These are the main, unchanging core values. Most other issues are added to party policy in order to pick up single issue voters - like racists or greens.

Republicans believe that a free market can provide almost everything that a civilization needs in the most efficient manner possible, and the government should stay out of its way. Many republicans also believe in Social Darwinism, in which the poor, ill, and elderly should suffer the consequences of their condition without assistance as a way of strengthening society and serving as a example for others.

Democrats believe that unrestrained capitalism has caused great harm on society in the past and business needs to be held to responsibility by laws, much the same as people. They believe that because the disparity of power between a corporation, or great wealth, and an individual worker is so great, the government must protect the interests of the individual.

Answer 3

the certainty is that our Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens died in an attack on 9/11 that became into mindless and preventable if Obama might have secured the embassy understanding that people have been plenty greater probable to be attacked on that day than the different. What a shame he's to united states of america of america - it extremely is the certainty.

Answer 4

Democrats pro choice , pro Social plans like SOCIAL security and welfare ., Tend to support unions for jobs and wages . Republicans believe Big business create jobs ( if you live in Japan Taiwan or China ) Pro life , They tend to bend towards the whims of religion to get the vote . and want to believe all democrats want to take away their guns . I could go on but these are the main points .

Answer 5

It is about the government as nurturing parent or drunken abusive father.

There is considerable research that shows that those who grow up in abuse lose many reasoning skills and accept illogical conclusions as they are abused further if they don't. The abandonment they feel, is echoed in their pursuit of only personal objectives, not giving to others the empathy that was never given to them.

They don't hold power accountable, because there was no way to hold their father accountable for his abuse. This leads to two different approaches.

One to be the Teachers Pet and gain power by supporting power, to achieve success by following the rules of the leader. Down this path lies Fascism.

The other to be the rebel, not openly challenge authority, but to skate by the rules, turning them to advantage, making the blundering father figure irrelevant, or even to disappear. Down this path is Libertarianism.

On the Democratic side, Government is also seen as an expanded version of the family, but instead of a selfish Father ruling the rest, they see the family as a means of creating the best children possible, doing everything they can to enable the children to reach the greatest potential possible.

They do this by opening paths to success rather than punishing failure, and building teams that operate in mutual support rather than gangs that obey their leaders. That the expansion of opportunity for everyone to participate, advances the cause for all.

In that sense leadership is held accountable to the rest of the team, that while the leader organizes, and advances the goals of the team, it is the team and not the leader that has the power.

That real Teams are better at achieving group goals than Gangs is hard to dispute, and hardly bias to say so. That unfettered Gangsters have spent Billions of dollars to create the illusion that unaccountable leadership is somehow equally reasonable, ranks with their previous "Divine right" of Kings to justify their evil.

There may come a day that there is reasonable disagreement about what sorts of accountability are best to keep leadership of any organization from looting or abusing that organization, instead of asking if there should be any accountability at all. But that day is not this day.

Answer 6

This is a very basic reply

Democrats: Bigger government paid for with more taxes where the government takes care of the people. More from the rich, less from the poor. More of an equal playing field where everyone is equal.

Republicans: Less government letting more people keep their money to stimulate the economy creating more wealth for everyone. Where more effort results in more rewards.

Answer 7

The Russians watch American politics closely. They say our two parties are the two sides of the same coin!

Answer 8

Repubs cut taxes, increase spending and the size of govt.
Dimocrats raise taxes, increase spending and the size of govt.
We are screwed!

Answer 9

Democrats are pro-slavery and anti-civil rights.

Republicans are anti-slavery and pro-civil rights.