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Democrats and Republicans

Democrats are generally more liberal. They believe in a larger federal government, and often implement tax plans to try to help the less privileged. They tend to believe the government must look for the greater good above the individual person in terms of well-fare and do what is necessary to make the populace more "equal". They assert that the values our country holds must evolve over time, and, therefore, tend to support such controversial choices as Pro Choice and gay marriage.

Republicans are generally more conservative. They believe that the answers do not lay with the government generally, but rather with the people. They want less government interference and tend to believe more strongly in property rights and less strongly in well-fare rights, holding economic equity above equality. Many republicans are religious and tend to hold to the morals characterizing the Founding Fathers, which results in general disproval of abortions and, for some, gay marriage.

To sum it up, Democrats lean toward equality under a large federal goverment. Republicans lean towards people looking after themselves and their neighbors under small federal government and strong state governments.

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democrat is usually characterized by beliefs such as:

- personal privacy rights, including legalized abortion and gay marriage

- protection of civil liberties

- protection of the environment

- multilateral foreign policy

- extensive government services, such as health care, education, and welfare

- tax system that causes the rich to pay more taxes to pay for above government services

and republican is a person who believes that:

1)The 2nd Amendment of the Constitution takes precidence over the rest of the Constitution.

2)The rich should be tax-exempt, and that the middle and lower classes should have to foot the bill, also, a person who bitches when an under-funded government agency is unable to carry out its assigned task.

3)Thinks that programs such as welfare, medicare/medicaid and minimum wage are unconstitutional and should be banned.

4)Labels everything and everyone they disagree with as being

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Democrats generally support more government power while Republicans support more state power and less government power

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