Economic Ideologies: Liberals Vs. Liberals

Economic ideologies are people’s beliefs in how an economy should be operated. How much of an influence should government have? Is the free market something that will help all member of society? Is income inequality a large problem that needs to be dealt with? Economic Conservatives and Liberals have different answers to these questions. Conservatives believe in the free market and desire less government intervention. While Liberals believe the free market naturally produces inequality and sees it as the governments responsibility to handle many issues that arise. There are a few observations that have been made about both Liberals and Conservative, it is not in their belief systems, but it is how they act in the world. A survey taken last year shows that people tend to align more with the economic ideologies of their friends more than those of strangers. The same survey was taken two years ago and had the same result. People aren’t always attracted to polar opposites, people gather together with those they are most similar or familiar with. This can also be seen in situations where people are moving out of state. People have a greater tendency to buy a house in a neighborhood
This is a tendency possessed by human beings that ultimately makes people hear what they want to hear. Information that disagrees with what one believes will often be disregarded as being false or originating from an unreliable source. Information that supports what they think will only further engrain their thoughts and will give them a sense of over confidence. Eventually people with Confirmation Bias will find themselves in a situation similar to that of what Christopher Hitchens once described. People will build a wall around them, each brick blocking out the voices of others, with enough bricks and a large enough wall one will have of completely isolated themselves and will only hear their own