What's the principal difference between a Republican and a Democrat?

Answer 1

Republicans tend to favor lower taxes policies that promote business and economic growth. They favor individual responsibility. They favor strong military defense. Some also favor traditional christian values.

Democrats tend to favor higher taxes to fund social welfare programs that provide for the needs of the lower classes. They generally want to tax the wealthy as well as businesses and industry. They are usually less focused on the military. They also place less importance on traditional christian values.

Answer 2

Whig
One entry found.

Whig



Main Entry: Whig
Pronunciation: \ˈhwig, ˈwig\
Function: noun
Etymology: short for Whiggamore, member of a Scottish group that marched to Edinburgh in 1648 to oppose the court party
Date: 1702
1 : a member or supporter of a major British political group of the late 17th through early 19th centuries seeking to limit the royal authority and increase parliamentary power — compare tory
2 : an American favoring independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution
3 : a member or supporter of an American political party formed about 1834 in opposition to the Jacksonian Democrats, associated chiefly with manufacturing, commercial, and financial interests, and succeeded about 1854 by the Republican party

Answer 3

I don't know what it's become in USA, but basically perhaps a republican believes that the whole society benefits from what serves the individual - and a democrat believes in the collective so what benefits the collective serves the individual. It's paraleled by the old socialist versus capitalist debate and all its permutations.

Answer 4

Republican=Capitalist
Democrat=Socialist

Answer 5

Get rich quick schemes in the capitalist business world, (buyouts, IPOs, conglomerates, acquisitions, mergers, and the stock market), do not actually work. Remaining solvent does not actually exist within false economics capitalism.

Profit existing in the capitalist business world, or millionaires existing within capitalism, is pathological deception committed by the 21 organizations spying on the population with plain clothes agents, (with covert fake names and fake backgrounds).

Actual economics is the persons paying the monthly business loan payments of companies voting at work in order to control the property they are paying for.

Capitalism is the psychology of imaginary parents, false economics, and the criminal deception of employees that are paying the bills (including the stocks and bonds, or shares) of companies.

Anti-democracy republicanism is the psychology of imaginary parents, and false government.

Answer 6

Only my opinion, I used to be a Democrat, but switched.
As a democat, I believed everyone deserved support from the federal government, at all costs. I believed that money grew on trees and we should except all foreiners who wished to come over and stay, I blamed society for my actions and the actions of others.

Once I sarted working for a living, and saw my money going to taxes for welfare recipients with 15 kids, illegal aliens collecting benefits, legal aliens collecting Social Security (SSI) and not working a day in their lives. I started to accept responsibility for my actions and not blame others. Ciggarettes dont kill, people who light them up and suck tar & nicotine out the other end, kill themselves, guns don't kill, people who pull the trigger for all the wrong reasons kill.
Dems believe crimminals are victims, and victims are just, oh, well, victims.

Dems are upset that Americans twisted a terrorists nose to find out where IED's were hidden, Republicans are glad that American lives were saved by the interrogation techniques.

That is my opinion of the difference. Do I hate democrats, of course not, I have good friends who are dems, am I stereotyping them, yes I am.

Answer 7

Well, who is the anarchist "leader" of the "most powerful country?" Whose deceit led the whole country to believe, & thus supported the invasion on Iraq? Who broke national & international law? Only bits & pieces of the truth so far exposed? Who is secretive, & destroys videos & documents that are incriminating to the "administration"?
Give me a break.
cOw6Oy "selects" negatives to prove a pointless point. ALL welfare recipients don't have 15 kids, & all the rest of it is farcical.
The filthy rich are given bizarre tax breaks, we can afford trlillions to support our uselss nonsense in Iraq, we haven't enough troops nor do we give them help when they return with lost limbs & psychological damage, but our infrastructure is going to hell in a handbasket with many damns, railroads, bridges & more--in imminent danger (& far more easy for terrorists to demolish), millions without health care, parents who work full time & can't afford housing, children in the U.S. starving. Effects of global warming by renowned scientists censored as the big oil industries OWN this country, oh, forget it.
"Twisted terrorists nose"--cool. Accept torture here, & better expect it THERE. No one in the world respects us, & I can see why some hate us. If I hear "guns don't kill" one more time, I'm going to laugh myself silly. "Dems believe crimminals [sic] are victims..." Hmm. A lot of research went into this! What have ciggarettes [sic] got to do with any of this? The world is in chaos, & there are the uninformed who will believe the same fear tactics of WMD & get paranoid about Iran--so--let's go for WWIII & have done with it.

Answer 8

Republicans will tell Americans that Ameicans are Milk Cows

Democrats will tell Americans that Americans are humans but need to live like Milk Cows

Answer 9

The principle difference in recent times has been.. which special interest groups they cater to.

Answer 10

Democrats want the federal government to control everything and Republicians want the states to control most things.