Government Intervention

Everyone has a different ideology and different perspective relating to what kind of government control should be in effect in the world around us. Within these political perspectives and ideologies many different factors and pressures affect what one may believe is the correct amount of government intervention. The first source displays the Machinist Union logo, a more left wing, collectivist, idea. Unions want collective action and representation to affirm and ensure their rights and values are upheld. This idea of creating a group (union) to affirm and ensure their collective interests and the common will of the group is upheld is something a right wing’d thinker would strongly oppose. Unions collaborate and cooperate in voting on policies
The second source demonstrates a rally/a booth set up by women protesting and trying to secure the right for women to vote in democratic elections. When women started to protest for their right to vote they decided to take collectivist action. This idea of taking a collectivist approach and rallying together is on the left side of the political spectrum. These women wanted more government involvement, a left wing’d idea, so they could have their individual right, the right to vote, affirmed and put into common practice. These ideas of shifting their political view from little government involvement to more government involvement so that the government could protect their rights is something one would see if they look at classical liberalism comparing to modern liberalism. Classical liberalism wanted a more laissez faire approach to the economy and how government should rule over all of us. They did not want government intervention, the government was just their to make laws to help protect our rights, freedoms and overall ourselves. Modern liberalism is a shift from the left side of the spectrum to right. With modern liberalism people wanted more government involvement so rights such as women's right to vote, were secured and the government supported
The USA is a right wing’d country. They do not like a high level of government involvement in politics, just enough to protect the “unalienable rights” that are “endowed by their creator”. The USA from an economic standpoint does not like the ideas of collectivism, where everyone helps one another. It is common practice for there to be fierce competition between businesses and one another. This idea of individualism has many positives such as competition driving up quality and down prices so they are able to sell more product, but also some negatives. Some negatives include the fact that if you fail in the system where everyone is on your own it may be hard for one to ‘get back on their feet’. These right wing ideas are based off of Locke’s ideological standpoint. Locke's believed that government should only be in place to protect and affirm the rights of the people, not to intervene in the economy or politics farther than it needs to to protect these rights. Locke believed that people should compete for resources and compete against one another. He felt that man by nature were kind and would not steal resources, which is opposite of Hobbes and how he felt the nature of man was naturally evil and bad. The source shows how the USA supports Locke's right wing’d vision in the quotation “whenever