Political Ideology

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Political Ideology
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Terms

• Political Ideology
• How you play the game of politics.
• Liberal or Conservative
• Political Culture
• A patterned way of thinking about politics.
• The rules of the game.

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How to Identify

• Ideology is based on how you view three things
• Humans
• Institutions
• History

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Liberals
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Humans

• We have landed on Gilligan's Island
• We are stripped away from the effects of the
  public
• Humans basic nature is good and benevolent.
• We co-operate because we need each other

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Institutions

• Marriage, Family, Government, Defense
• All institutions need to adjust and change with
  the times
• Marriage Two loving people, marriage is a loving
  group.
• No Fault Divorce In 1950 you had to prove
  infidelity. 1970 you dont need to have fault.
  SC 1 yr wait

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History

• Human history has been a record of positive
  change
• Leads to optimism about the future
• Education and Reason causes growth and solves
  problems

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What do you read/listen to/believe?

• New York Times
• CNN
• NPR
• The New Republic
• Premier Philosopher John Stuart Mill

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Conservatives
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Humans

• We fall into competition, conflict, and wars
• Human nature is fallen, finite, and frail
• Government is there to protect us from ourselves

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Institutions

• Embody the knowledge of the past
• Marriage. Louisiana has covenant marriage. This
  means it is much harder to get a divorce.
• Change should happens slowly

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History

• It is cyclical sometimes good, sometimes bad

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What do you read/listen to/believe

• Rush Limbaugh
• Imus
• Fox News
• Wall Street Journal
• The Weekly Standard
• NRA
• Edmund Burke is your philosopher