Unit 2: Political Participation Behavior Project

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Assignment: History and Anthropology

When it comes to politics, Americans are exceptionally divided. Their beliefs about how the government should deal with the issues of caste, national-level security, environmental safety, and migration, highly differ. There are two groups of people, Liberals, and Conservatives who exist mainly in the form of political parties. They have lead their country in different ways and have entirely different beliefs and opinions.

Most of the liberals are democrats who favor people with different thinking. They are on the view that the government should make the lives of the employees better by investing in them and that Democracy should be available for every citizen of America. For example, they believe that everyone has an equal right to services like healthcare, education, habitation, and other basic human needs. Particularly, they prefer people over profit.

The conservatives, however, are the Republicans mostly who don’t believe in government involvement that much. They tend to believe in self liberty, traditional, and historical values. They are on the view that minimal government involvement will result in producing more jobs and improving the industrial economy in the private sector. The main focus of their policies is to empower individuals so that they can solve their problems on their own. Hence, their efforts are projected to increase American jobs and enhance the trade of American goods and services.

The motives of both parties are the same eventually. No party would like to make the lives of people uncomfortable, but the conflicts in most of their beliefs create situations which affect the common people in many awful ways. However, the fact is that most of the people are neither completely conservative nor completely liberal and lies in between the two states.

As expected, conservatives have different views regarding most of the national topics including media, elections, and social issues. Conservatives deny the expected neutral nature of media and consider it to be highly biased towards liberals. Consider the following example: One of the conservative websites known as ‘Town hall’ explains the condition of media right after Donald Trump became president of America in a way that depicts the false biasing of media towards liberalism. The media started spreading fake news and hatred for Trump, among people which according to Town hall, backfired media and resulted in a significant decrease in the number of their followers. CITATION Rac18 \l 2057 (Alexander, 2018) Conservatives only offer their support to the conservative leaders; the leaders who they think, have a conservative approach in decision making. Moreover, conservatives are against any kind of advancements or modifications in their community norms and culture. They have been found opposing the government initiatives for equality in social and economic perspectives. They believe that nature will do justice with everyone. However, conservatives are found favoring the government involvements which uphold morality, such as outlawing the use of marijuana.

On the other hand, liberals have quite the opposite beliefs. They deny the biasness of media towards them and believe that the media is on neutral ground. They consider Donald Trump, a conservative leader, more affiliated and connected with the white people and insensitive regarding the African Americans’ painful history. In their recent articles, a liberal website, ‘Daily Kos’ criticized Trump on his recent racist statement. CITATION nom19 \l 2057 (nomandates, 2019) Liberals, however, favor government mediation to improve the social and economic equality in America. For example, liberals approve the laws related to wages, as they believe that without government involvement, the businesses will suppress the workers and employees which will increase the economic inequality. On the contrary, liberals oppose the government's involvement in the private areas of life, such as laws forbidding same-sex marriage.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY Alexander, R. (2018, December 31). A Look Back at the Demise of the Mainstream News Media in 2018. Retrieved from Townhall: https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2018/12/31/a-look-back-at-the-demise-of-the-mainstream-news-media-in-2018-n2538275

nomandates. (2019, October 25). Beto O'Rourke has a message waiting for Trump at an HBCU in South Carolina today. Retrieved from Daily Kos: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/25/1895064/-Beto-O-Rourke-has-a-message-waiting-for-Trump-at-an-HBCU-in-South-Carolina-today