Analytical Essay
Conservative/Liberal Analytical Essay
U.S. Government I
The old, traditional meanings of conservative and Liberalism are: Conservative = slow to change, cautious, even opposed to change; liberal = open-minded, progressive. The word has the same root as "liberty."
While today's conservatives share “some” of the same meanings as the old definitions, or at least the very broad conservative movement does, a better definition is: Conservatives believe in, very loosely, economic freedom, although most conservatives will not allow the economic freedom of a person's spending his own money to buy "pornography" or drugs, and many or most would forbid a person's using his own money for gambling or to hire a prostitute. They do, though, generally oppose taxation, especially income taxes and property taxes, even if their opposition comes in the form of opposing "excessive" taxes.
Liberals believe in economic regulation but often claim to believe in personal freedoms; they generally support wide and deep taxation, but liberals have, for example, long opposed censorship, until recent years when “pornography” has become a "feminist" issue instead of a religious or moral issue. Liberals have ridden the "political correctness" bandwagon, not necessarily cynically, perhaps even believing in the "sensitivity" issues, but one ironic result has been various kinds of censorship. Liberals generally do believe in an activist government, which means using the force of government to impose their moral viewpoint.
Based on these definitions and after carefully spending a lot of time investigating on this analysis, I will give you my general opinion and position about Conservative and Liberalism using different points and giving you examples to explain why I feel the way I feel. As you told us in class few weeks ago, “We don’t get to choose if we are conservative or liberals, we are who we are” and I strongly believe this thought.
When it comes down to Abortion I feel conservative,
U.S. Government I
The old, traditional meanings of conservative and Liberalism are: Conservative = slow to change, cautious, even opposed to change; liberal = open-minded, progressive. The word has the same root as "liberty."
While today's conservatives share “some” of the same meanings as the old definitions, or at least the very broad conservative movement does, a better definition is: Conservatives believe in, very loosely, economic freedom, although most conservatives will not allow the economic freedom of a person's spending his own money to buy "pornography" or drugs, and many or most would forbid a person's using his own money for gambling or to hire a prostitute. They do, though, generally oppose taxation, especially income taxes and property taxes, even if their opposition comes in the form of opposing "excessive" taxes.
Liberals believe in economic regulation but often claim to believe in personal freedoms; they generally support wide and deep taxation, but liberals have, for example, long opposed censorship, until recent years when “pornography” has become a "feminist" issue instead of a religious or moral issue. Liberals have ridden the "political correctness" bandwagon, not necessarily cynically, perhaps even believing in the "sensitivity" issues, but one ironic result has been various kinds of censorship. Liberals generally do believe in an activist government, which means using the force of government to impose their moral viewpoint.
Based on these definitions and after carefully spending a lot of time investigating on this analysis, I will give you my general opinion and position about Conservative and Liberalism using different points and giving you examples to explain why I feel the way I feel. As you told us in class few weeks ago, “We don’t get to choose if we are conservative or liberals, we are who we are” and I strongly believe this thought.
When it comes down to Abortion I feel conservative,