What is a Liberal, and What is a Conservative?

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It is very telling that every arguement you have boils down to the fact that you think managers do nothing except steal, rob, and sit on their tail.

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have to organize efforts, provided communication between different aspects of the company.

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Frankly, your concept of how any organization functions is deluded.

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At most, you have an issue with my defintions of the terms "leftist economics" and "libertarianism".

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Conservatives generally believe:
Smaller Government
Not as many socialist programs
Right to bear arms
Lower Taxes
Bigger Military
Pro life
Pro Business (Freemarket Capitalism without much Govt Interference)
Religeous/Family Values
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Liberal's Genearally believe:
Larger Government
Redistribution of Wealth from the producers to non-producers
Gun Restrictions
Higher Taxes
Smaller Military
Pro Choice
More Govnt Regulation of Business
Proponents of Gay rights
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In a nutshell.
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*EDIT* Pulled this off of a website
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Conservative:
* Government control of the economy should be minimal. Equal opportunity and legal business practice should be guaranteed though. (Fiscal/Economic)
* Strong moral definitions should be held. Strict criminal law and sentencing are necessary. Freedom and rights cannot be compromised. A strong emphasis is placed on the individual (Moral/Social)
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Libertarian:
** Government control of the economy should be minimal. (Fiscal/Economic)
* As long as actions do not harm others, they should be legal. Freedom and rights cannot be compromised (Moral/Social)
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Moderate:
- The moderate tends to stand with different groups on an issue-to-issue basis. Some moderates have strong leanings in regard to certain ideologies in partial areas such as moral conservatism and economic liberalism.
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Liberal:
* Strong government involvement and regulation of the economy. Redistribution of wealth and strict regulation of business by the government. (Fiscal/Economic)
* As long as actions do not harm others, they should be legal. Loose Constitutional interpretation. Society is emphasized. (Moral/Social)

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Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92

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The Political Compass:

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While Conservatives in the US equate public provision of healthcare as ‘socialism’, in Germany, and most other western democracies for that matter, mainstream conservative parties — like their left wing opponents — see healthcare as the right of every citizen. The supreme irony is that it costs each taxpayer a good deal less than what Americans shell out for so little in return.(...) Germany, incidentally, has an incarceration rate that is less than a tenth of that in the US, and boasts a far more humane system, oriented more towards rehabilitation than punishment. The jails are run entirely by the state in Germany, where private for-profit prisons are widely seen as an abhorrent idea.

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Conservative Americans might also assume that their German political namesakes are against gay marriage. To the contrary, a poll shows that 73 percent of Conservative voters are for it, and it has been legalized.(...) Then what about abortion? It’s available in ‘Conservative’ Germany during the first three months of pregnancy. Then surely Germany’s ‘Conservative’ chancellor has opposed immigration? To the contrary, she welcomed well over a million Muslim refugees in a single year.

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Right across the board — minimum wage, trade union rights, generous sick pay, at least 5 weeks paid holiday, free childcare and so on — Germany’s Conservatives have little in common with those of the US. Indeed Angela Merkel has been generally well to the left of Elizabeth Warren and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. (...)After 16 years of Conservative-led government, the top basic tax rate in Germany stands at 45 percent — an unconscionable figure for most US conservatives. But it’s still a far cry from the 91 percent top earners’ bracket reached during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower. That was a time before liberal Republicans became an extinct species; when conservatives in the US and Germany would have sat more closely together on The Political Compass.

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