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Republican VS Democrats beliefs chart

Though the actual survey respondents could also answer don t know,it s true that this format doesn t allow for much moderation or nuance. But that s what happens in American politics — you have to choose between two alternatives, not some fantasy third one. Here, you have to pick the statement you agree with most — or, which one you re least repelled…

The Liberals

By Patrick J. Buchanan “For the first time since President Richard M. Nixon’s divisive ‘Southern strategy’ that sent whites to the Republican Party and blacks to the Democrats …” began a New York Times story last week. Thus has one of the big lies of U.S. political history morphed into a cliche — that Richard Nixon used racist politics to steal the…

Liberal Reform

Joseph Nye, the dean of liberal internationalism, has been regularly writing about Russia over the past few months. Given his position and his peerless credentials (Rhodes Scholar, Harvard professor, Assistant Secretary of Defense) his analysis is an extremely handy summary of the way in which the American political elite looks at Putin and the Russian…

Liberal Economists

—Loren Rodgers, Watertown, Mass. In the early 19th century, as capitalist industrialization transformed Western European society, both advocates and critics of the emerging social order discussed it in similar terms. To early commentators, society was divided into broad social classes—landlords, laborers, capitalists—defined by their power over economic…

What is Liberalism?

“Three recent events have made me reflect on a certain theme that should be of interest to religious-minded advocates of the free society, ” in this week’s Acton Commentary. The three events were: 1) an interview I gave to an Italian online publication in response to a French professor who claims that capitalism is the root cause of gender theory and…

Values VS beliefs

Values vs Beliefs Knowing the difference between your beliefs and values can be a little confusing. People use both to guide their actions and behavior and to form their attitudes towards different things, but they are essentially different. Beliefs are the convictions that we generally hold to be true, usually without actual proof or evidence. They…

Liberal platform

The federal budget is in and the battle is on. It will unfold, within three weeks at the outside, with the unveiling of a major Liberal economic plank many months in the making, intended to trump the income-splitting and moderately enhanced universal child benefit upon which the governing Conservatives have staked their political future. The fog of…

Liberal views on abortion

‘Tim Farron does not seem inspired by the distrust of the state, freedom for individuals and, above all, instinctive tolerance that are hallmarks of his party’s traditional creed.’ Photograph: Felix Clay It has been largely forgotten, but two of the nation’s major political parties are now engaged in leadership contests. While the quartet of Labour…