Burch: What is The Real message Sent by the recent elections?

[Terri]

By Bill Burch
November 10, 2009

To understand what is going on, you must understand the various types of ideologies, the way the Parties function in New York, the realities of the two major parties, and the current mindset of the Tea Party and 9-12 Project movements. Upon understanding these and the spin they each put out, you can then reach a conclusion of where politics are in America today. Due to space constraints, these definitions will be brief.

Ideology Definitions

First let's look at conservatives. The broadest of these is the Ronald Reagan conservatism. This brand believes in individual rights and freedoms, lower taxes, a strong military, smaller government, and has a strong belief in the abilities of Americans and America.

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[schillerbjr]

"CONSERVATISM" trumps all other issues!!!

[Duodecim]

I agree with the main point of his article, but his definitions of the philosophies at work here seemed to have a few problems. I don't think it is accurate to say that liberals believe in the same rights as Reagan but want the government to be more active in guaranteeing them. Reagan wanted governments to defend genuine rights. Liberals want to use every level of government they can reach to enforce the long list of benefits that they claim are rights. (For example, in 2000, I remember Al Gore claiming that internet access had become a fundamental "human right" that government should provide. Pretty much everything that anyone wants other people to have is an enforceable right, according to them.) Also, he seemed to be saying that libertarians are uncomfortable with laws against murder and rape because those are "social issue" laws. I do not think that is true. The libertarians I have met and/or heard of generally think that murder and rape laws are some of the few examples of appropriate laws.