What are the characteristics each of the political parties (Conservative, Reactionary, Liberal, Radical)?
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well without being to long winded about it basically the republicans are for smaller goverment, states rights, low taxes and generally fear change they like our laws the way the are.they live and die by the constitution. The Dems are for larger goverment more goverment involvement,sometimes higher taxes and tend to want to reform our laws they feel some are outdated and need looked at. When you ask about social issues typically your Republicans stand on the Conservative side of social issues like most are pro-life(but yet support the death penalty) against gay marriage and support gun rights. As for Dems they tend to support gay marriage, some are anti-gun and most are pro choice. hopes this helps and by the way Bush has been labled a Conservative but in reallity his views are more towards the center.
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Good question. Anerican politics can be very complicated.\n\nGenerally, the Republican Party can be seen as the equivalent to the "Tories", the Democratic Party can be seen as the equivalent to Labour, although the American spectrum is a little bit more to the right. From what I've heard about the modern Liberal party, they are probably equivalent to Libertarians- although it's hard to peg your Liberal party down on the political spectrum.\n\nBut until the 1960's, it wasn't that cut and dry. The Democrats had many Conservatives in the south and elsewhere. And the Republicans had many liberals/moderates in the Northeast. The Republicans, after all, were the ones who freed the slaves during the Civil War. The Democrats, as a matter of fact, encouraged the formation of the KKK as a means of intimidating republicans(most of the Republicans in the south after the civil war were black ).\n\nBut even with those contradictions, the Democrats have almost always been perceived as more of "the people's party" and the Republicans have been more of a "Pro-Business" party.\n\nAs I said, the 60's and the Nixon "Southern Strategy" sort of caused a realignment. Conservatives moved to the GOP(Republican party) and liberals moved to the Democrats- although the seeds of this were already in each party, and there had been a slow drift both ways throughout the 20th century.
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The Democrats and the Republicans are the two major political parties in this country.  Republicans are universally recognized as more conservative (enact fewer laws that change things radically or even slightly and tax less and interfere with moral issues far more e.g. abortion) than Democrats who are considered much more liberal (tax more to fund many more sweeping changes; a rather laissez faire "anything goes" approach to morality).  The same sort of alignment is found in other countries, take England where the Labor party is the more liberal counterpart of our Democrats.\n\nWithin the Democratic Party there are some conservatives and many middle-of-the-roaders.  Conversely among the Republicans are some liberals and many middle-of-the-roaders as well.  Beginning in the last half of the 20th Century the present party status began to form with the Democrats being gradually considered more and more liberal and the Republicans more and more conservative until by 1980 the present battlelines were drawn. So the question as you asked it doesn't fit exactly . . . There is NO difference between liberals and SOME Democrats and a few Republicans; and there is a huge difference between liberals and other Democrats and even more Republicans.  \n\nThe strangest thing is that up until about 1947 when Harry Truman splintered his party (the Democrats) by standing up for civil rights for the Black servicemen returning from World War II and the Dixiecrats were formed to oppose him, up until that time the Republicans were the liberals and the Democrats were the conservatives with their power bases in the North east and the South respectively.  After all, the most radical change in American life was created during the first Republican administration in history:  Abraham Lincoln's.  \n\nToday the south and the west are the bastions of conservatism and the north east and heavy industrial states are the centers of liberal thought.  Labor unions tend to be the biggest supporters of liberal candidates and business and merchants of the conservative ones.\n\nIn general, Liberals are easily criticized as too eager to tax and too impractical in their legislation, too eager to align with so-called fringe groups (gays and lesbians, for example). Conservatives nowadays are seen as too eager to align themselves with the interests not just of business but especially of big business, too willing to legislate morality, too closely in touch with religious groups that would for example undo Roe vs. Wade. One last comment:  some people call liberals leftists, that is aligned with socialism or even communism; and conservatives right-wingers, that is aligned with the status quo and keeping the rich and powerful, rich and powerful.\n\nIn my opinion the best of both possible worlds is found in the Libertarian Party which espouses very low taxes, strong national defense and simple practical public works projects with no interference in private lives.  Conservative fiscally and on national defense; non-interfering in most other ways.  I hope this helped.  Good luck.
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Courts/Judiciary - Republicans -conservative\n                              Democrats - liberal\nCrime/Police - Republicans - catch the terrorists\n                        Democrats - lenient\nDefense/Military - Republicans - Aggressive in war\n                             Democrats - No war\nDisabilities - Republicans - concerned\n                     Democrats - no welfare\nDrugs - Republicans - drug users be jailed\n             Democrats - lenient\nEconomy - Republicans - not good economy\n                   Democrats - good\nEducation - Republicans - conservatives\n                   Demmocrats - liberal\nEnergy/Environment/Finace - Republicans - not good\n                                                Democrats - good
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oh wow!  There are 2 major parties in the United States. Democrats and Republicans. Some democrats, well usually most, no offence, can be liberals. Sometimes, they are liberals. Republicans are representated by an elephant. Go to the national republican or national democrat websites to learn about their history and facts. It is pretty interesting.
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The attached link has a list of all political parties in American politics. (I am assuming that you are interested in US politics?)  It is a very informative site, with information about when the parties were formed, notable members, and their agenda.\n\n\nhttp://www.politics1.com/parties.htm
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i cant give you names of specific people, but here are some parties, green, socialist, liberal, conservative, right to life, reform, libertarian, marijuana reform.
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1 demagogue\n\n. has leadership qualities but appeals to people's emotion and prejudices to with them over\n\n2 anarchist\n\nrejects all forms of organization or authority\n\n3 archenemy\n\nshows hostility toward others or toward a chif opponent\n\n4  archtype \n\nis the original model after which others will be patterened\n\n5  archaic\n\nis old-fashioned and not modern\n\n\nwaiting for my ten points.........
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Republicans are stereotypically for the rich. conservative and more religious, older and beleive in less government. \nDemocrats are typically younger, more ideal, watch out for the little guy. Beleive in more social services.
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Some conservatives are Republican and some are Democrats. Since we have only two major parties, the reasons behind why a person chooses a party over the other can sometimes be baffling. That's why they say that there are conservative, moderate, and liberals in every party (and some fanatics and extremists, too from each of those three). The two parties do their best to represent all the members within. A person may be a social conservative, but an economic moderate and choose to be a Democrat because the economic issues hold more importance than social issues, or vice versa they may choose to be Republican because social issues are more important. You can have a socially liberal person who is also economically conservative and very moderate on other issues who due to their conservative stance economically chooses to be Republican. Or because of their very liberal social views will choose Democrat, or will choose neither because the issues that are important to them aren't strongly emphasized either way by either party and will register as independent (my sister being a good example)
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LIBERALS\nTriumph of the Will\n\nCONSERVATIVES\nPassion of the Christ
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Here are some brief definitions that may help you, although wikipedia is a great source for information:\n\nCabinet: The President's various secrataries. Examples: Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Health and Human Services. There are 15 people that fill these offices.\n\nSenate: One of the two houses of the Congress. It has 100 members, two from each state, with 6 year terms.\n\nLiberal: Generally used to describe Democrats, or those who subsribe to "liberal" views, such as right to choose, abolish death penalty, many others (this definition is highly simplified but will do for now).\n\nRepublican: Those who are members of the Republican party, also called Conservatives (though many who are conservative are not members of the party). They generally believe in the right to life, higher defense spending, and lower social welfar spening (coupled with lower taxes). \n \nParty: Any formal organization of people who choose a representative to run for office. There have been many parties throught the US's history, but there have only been 2 main parties at any given time.\n\nFor the rest, just look up specific terms. You might want to look up those ones, too, since my answers are very much simplified.\nAlso, try taking a very basic Government or American History course for a contextual framework.
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Wikipedia is a good place to start - under the government entry for each country you should be able to find a list of the majoar parties in that country.  Then some googling should give you some info on each of them.
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I chose the party I currently vote in when I was about 22. It was a long debate, measuring pros and cons of both major parties and a few smaller ones. It was a painstaking journey. My mother and her side of the family wanted a Democrat, and my father wanted a Republican. I chose the party that best fit with my political beliefs. Needless to say, My grandmother has taken me out of her will, and my mother wants to constantly argue politics and religion with me.
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Veeery generaly speaking, the Left (liberal) and Right (conservative) of politics came out of the French Revolution.\n\nAt that time, the Left was more concerned with laws that protect people's rights, and the conservatives are more concerned with laws that protect property.  \n\nFrom this, the traditional Liberal and Conservatives have arisen.  No one politican or person exemplifies what the TRUE definition of the words are, but issue by issue, the sides of politics have been created by these factions.\n\nIf you ask me, the terms liberal and conservative are meaningless, because they can't capture the entire persons views, and a person who describes themselves as a dem, repub, liberal or conservative is doing an injustice to the political process.\n\nAll politicians agree that its not about sides, its about issues.  Not about teams, its about debate and progress.
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Intelligent, but emotional\nOrganized but surface messy\nSensitive but assertive\nlife of the party when they need to be, otherwise they prefer to stay at home\nAll the appearance of being a prude, but really wild in bed.\nA leader, but quiet the rest of the time.
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Here are the parties I found listed as registered in Washington State:\nRepublican\nDemocrat\nCommunist\nAmerican Heritage\nConstitution\nGreen\nLibertarian\nProgressive\nReform