Republicans and Democrats: Similar Differences
Republicans and Democrats: Similar Differences
America is a truly unique country. This land allows for people from all types of nationalities to come and unite under one banner. This land allows for differences in opinion, religion, and even differences in sexual preference. This land is not a dictatorship. This land is America: land of the free, home of the brave. All patriotism aside, America is a land of free thought and freedom of ideas. This leads to many, many different ideas, especially on how this country should be ran. These differences generally fall into the broad political categories of conservative or liberal. Conservative ideas tend to favor economic opportunity and less government interference within everyday life, whereas liberal ideas to favor greater government intervention and civil rights. The conservative party in America is the Republican Party, while the Democratic Party is the liberal party. They are continually at odds with one another on a wealth of issues. In fact, the issue usually doesn’t matter… pick any issue and one can hear two different points of view. Contrary to popular belief though, these two parties share common ground. Three issues that can be examined as such are public health care, election process, and lack of cooperation. With the election of President Obama, public healthcare has become a major issue in American politics. Currently the Democrats and Democratic Party are staunchly behind the new healthcare bill. In fact, even the Republicans have “frequently said they want to work with Democrats,” (Cohn 12) on the healthcare reform. Those words are all but meaningless as Republicans end up nearly unanimously opposing every single bill that comes from the Democrats. This is not the first time that a party has railed against the other on the issue of healthcare reform. Back in the 1970’s, “Richard Nixon put forward a health care reform proposal that Kennedy and his liberal allies rejected as too timid.” (Cohn 12) So,
America is a truly unique country. This land allows for people from all types of nationalities to come and unite under one banner. This land allows for differences in opinion, religion, and even differences in sexual preference. This land is not a dictatorship. This land is America: land of the free, home of the brave. All patriotism aside, America is a land of free thought and freedom of ideas. This leads to many, many different ideas, especially on how this country should be ran. These differences generally fall into the broad political categories of conservative or liberal. Conservative ideas tend to favor economic opportunity and less government interference within everyday life, whereas liberal ideas to favor greater government intervention and civil rights. The conservative party in America is the Republican Party, while the Democratic Party is the liberal party. They are continually at odds with one another on a wealth of issues. In fact, the issue usually doesn’t matter… pick any issue and one can hear two different points of view. Contrary to popular belief though, these two parties share common ground. Three issues that can be examined as such are public health care, election process, and lack of cooperation. With the election of President Obama, public healthcare has become a major issue in American politics. Currently the Democrats and Democratic Party are staunchly behind the new healthcare bill. In fact, even the Republicans have “frequently said they want to work with Democrats,” (Cohn 12) on the healthcare reform. Those words are all but meaningless as Republicans end up nearly unanimously opposing every single bill that comes from the Democrats. This is not the first time that a party has railed against the other on the issue of healthcare reform. Back in the 1970’s, “Richard Nixon put forward a health care reform proposal that Kennedy and his liberal allies rejected as too timid.” (Cohn 12) So,
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