similarites betweens conservatives and liberals?
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They both have uvulas.
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That's rubbish.  Liberals are just as Christian as Conservatives and Independents.  Follow your God and don't worry about the politics.
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Conservatives are typically protection-minded, as in typically protective of the country and our way of life. Liberals tend to do a lot of america-bashing, they hate this, they hate that, they have a 'favorite minority of the month' kind of thing, they care more about starving kids somewhere else than starving kids in america, that kind of thing...their focus is more on 'the poor' and some other country than on fixing america....
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I think this goes for both liberals and conservatives.  It's just more obvious to you when you are on the receiving end of it.
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Conservative and liberal. Fox news and CNN respectively.\n\nI'm not to sure if that is what you are looking for.
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You can make the same argument about the Conservatives being stuck in the 50's.  Each faction (Cons and Libs) are stereotyped into a certain ideology that is compared to a way of thinking or political movement of a past era.  I consider myself a moderate Republican.  As such, I have as much in common with the far left as I do with the far right.  To me, both factions are "behing the times".  We live in a rapidly changing world and Liberals need to realize, just as Conservatives do, that their views and ideology are no longer embraced by the majority of the country. \n\nAnd just to add a comment, Conservatives want your money just as much as Liberals...the difference is that Liberals want to give it to the poor and/or less fortunate via government programs wheras Conservatives want to give it to the poor and/or less fortunate via religious institutions.  Same goal, just different ways of doing it.
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I don't really see any similarities at all. If there are any, they are very loose similarities.
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Conservative.  Conservative people follow like sheep.  Liberal people are more interested in character.  Initially he would have more success with the sheep.
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Liberals evil, no, but I believe that alot of them especially the extreme Liberals are out of touch with reality. I persoally an a fan of Alan Colmes. And I'm a conservative\n\n Conservatives facists- no- but have you met any members of the far right Militias. They would qualify\n\nNo- not even close, but Liberalism is fairly close to Socialism, and if you ask alot of Liberals they will tell you that they like socialist forms of government\n\nNo, just alot of people that have gotten into the fight and have taken it too far. The two party system is supposed to cause both groups to meet in the middle, find acceptable solutions to both groups.\n\nI was a history major, there is no historical precedence to support the allegations except in the case of the extreme left and right. For years the Democrats and Republicans were both fairly moderate. The hijacking of hte parties is a fairly new occurance. I believe the Demcratic party is suffering the most from that right now\n\nCharacter defamation bothers me, when it is used in such a sweeping manner, to cover an entire political belief or group.
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political viewpoints tend to get divided. i am an economic liberal which comes awfully close to communism because i believe in sharing the wealth and helping out your neighbor. However i am a moral conservative because i am against things like gay rights, immigration, and lots of other political questions that fall on the moral side.
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There is a difference.\n\nConservatism is a general term for that side of the spectrum.\n\nA neo-conservative in modern times are the conservatives who are a little farther out on the right.  They, like anyone who gets too far off the deep end, gets closed minded, thinks their side is ALWAYS right, feels like the other side is ALWAYS wrong and is a general BIGOT.\n\nDon't get me wrong, I'm not calling all conservatives that, only neo-conservatives.  It's the same with liberals and neo-liberals (liberals who think all events are a conspiracy by Bush, etc..)\n\nBeing too far on any one side is bad.  That's the idea of neo-con/lib.\n\nUsually, on this forum though, it's just name calling.  Most of the liberals that use "neo-con" are themselves "neo-libs".
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IMO, the Dems have more in common with the Nazis than the GOP. Don't forget, the political spectrum isn't perfect- the Nazis were, after all, National SOCIALISTS.\n\nSome other similarities between those on the left and Nazis:\n\n- Hitler (and many other high ranking Nazis) were violently anti-smoking. Most of the anti-tobacco legislation does seem to come from Democrats.\n- Hitler was a vegitarian. Just call him a nice tree hugging PETA member.\n- Even though the Nazis paid homage to Christianity, many top secret Nazi memos showed they despised CHristianity and longed for the day ater the war when they could bring back German paganism. The nazis were wiccans ?\n\nBut in reality, I don't think the Dems are Nazis. Fascism is a terrible thing, something which is a strong accusation. Whenever the Dems call the GOP "nazis" it belittels how terrible Nazism really was.
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Both refer to philosophical positions, but are usually applied to political movements that embody those philosophies.\n\nLiberals favor growth, change, flexibility. They tend to be more dynamic and driven, but often less organized. In the political arena, liberals favor progressive reform and the protection of civil liberties.\n\nConservatives favor tradition, conformity, and slow (if any) change. They tend to be more organized, but occasionally stagnant. In politics, this can be split between those who seek minimal government interference with minimal government social programs, and those who want heavy government regulation to ensure national conformity.
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the problem between liberals and conservatives, is simple ,while liberal minded people point out the inequities of those who earn less and work harder , conservatives feel as though they have earned what they get .\nConservatives by virtue of always following the rules and path laid before them do so blindly without a care in the world never noticing they have a distinct advantage.\nAS an older American who watches T.V. and reads news reports i have noticed that the media talks down to people .This gives me a headache and in trying to point this out and other simple facts I run into conservatives who try to insist everything is fine with the country except for the liberals who are trying to destroy america. They point out that marriage is between a man and a woman and that is fine with me ,but giving married people rights that others do not have is wrong and i point this out.\nI get the usu-all responce that it was adam and eve not adam and steve responce .\nThis was not what I expected from an intelligent person \nI wanted to hear you are right and how can we make things fair for couples who want to raise a family.\nI get but adam and steve can not have a family only adam and eve.\nTO this i point out how many children in america have no parents at all and live in foster care, an impermanent situation that leaves children wondering always when they will be accepted as permanent members of  a family and know they are loved for who they are .\nA family consists of a domestic group of people ,typicaly affiliated by birth or marriage or by comparable legal relationship.\nIN a nuclear family the typically female  memeber of the family stayes home and raises the children ,and should the marriage fail she is provided for and so are the children.\nNOW when a same sex partnership breaks up only the person who has adopted the children legally has any rights .\nThis leaves the member of the family who raised the children and was there all the time for them watching over them and protecting them every day with no rights at all if they are not the adoptive member of the family.IN- fact they are not intitled to support or visitation or any rights granted in a marriage.\nI say to my consevative friends which i have only a few casual relationships with how do we do something about this and the responce is they had no business being togheter in the first place.\nThis i can not accept and it is wrong for anyone to tell another how to live and what relationships work and what ones do not.\nTHIS is the major differance between liberals and conservatives is we accept that rules need to exsist for the benefit of all mankind but mankind is not limited to living a life following rules that restrict his freedom of choice in who he may live with or the rights he is granted or denied because of sex this is discrimination .Two people apply for a license to marry and the rights there-in  agreed upon by the state to regognize and give equal weight to both parties and the benefits offered in accordance to taxes and rights of children to remain with there family.ONCE you make this a choice only offered to people of different sexes you have created discrimination and this is wrong.CONSERVATIVES will never accept this and this is why i beleive they are idiots cause faced with plain simple facts they can not see the truth .IF you asked a kid what is 2+2 and he had no answer or kept on insisting it was 7  you would say the boy is touched after you teach him that 2+2=4 . this is my feeling about conservatives is you can point out the truth but you can not make them drink.IF you wish to be considered average then leave governing to the people who know better and are smarter then you.although i see you put your-self above average americans.this means you see that i am right and discrimination is wrong and gays should have equal protection and rights under our laws.IF however you do not agree i must insist you accept that you are indeed average and allow the smarte
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Conservatives: In nature they favor big business, they also favor anti-abortion, \nLiberals: Favor pro-life, Favor people\nIndependent: that is a tricky question becuase not all independents think alike. They favor fact over inaccuracy.
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Left (wing) is the same as Liberal and right (wing) is the same as conservative.\n\nConservatives claim to be more careful in making changes.  They don't like to change the way things are done unless they think the new way will be an improvement.  \n\nConservatives also tend to interpret the constitution in light of the founding fathers commentary, historical perspectives of the founding fathers, and the actual wording of the constitution.\n\nConservatives are more likely to cut taxes (except in times of war) and cut social programs (except for national defense).  They also tend to hold traditional Values,\n\nLiberals claim to embrace change.  They tend to go more with the trends than with what was done in the past.\n\nLiberals usually view the Constitution as a "Living Document" that changes with the times that we are currently living in.  They view the wording of the Constitution as symbolic rather than concrete.\n\nLiberals tend to raise taxes and increase funding of social programs (except for Defense spending).  Liberals values tend to run with the trends of their time.\n\nstephenvest@...\nYou could at least try to be objective.
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I do research. During the 2006 elections I went to a website called votersissue.org. Sometimes I just went and type the name of the person and a website detailing their stance on issues has been helpful. The media has pretty much mislabed politicians making one conservative where they were actually moderate. Making someone a liberal but they actually were a little to the right.