Comparing and Contrasting the Two Major American Political Parties

In the United States there exists for the almost dissever a dichotomy with respect to parties of political affiliation, and while other parties screwing and do exist, virtu everyy people rear to the US as it is now as a ii- troupe state. The two parties, the Democratic caller and the Republican Party, become existed in our country for over one hundred fifty-three years each, and the struggle for power in which they both partake has been no small matter, becoming more(prenominal)(prenominal) and more hotly contested as time goes on.While both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party (GOP herein) seem starkly opposite at step forward level, the two often have similar goals, aspirations and plans for our country, with the main point of leaning being the methods by which such things are brought ab show up. Fiscally, the Democrats and GOP both want a free economy with as little national debt as sustainably possible, but, for the most part, the Democrats upgrade admi nistration action, and the GOP favors cloistered action. With respect to hearty policy, the Democrats favor more progressive principle, and the GOP favors more traditional legislation.As the US stands currently, in a recession, no American could disagree that everyones goal for the economy is to get out of the recession. The real question is How do we do it? Republicans say that we should crop spending, cut taxes and allow those cuts in taxes to promote job creation in the private sector jobs come from businesses, and when the people who own the businesses have more money, they can hire more people to do more work, which would raise gross domestic product and reduce the national debt.Democrats say that we should raise taxes to increase revenue, and use the increase revenue to sponsor various economic stimuli to promote greater productiveness and job creation. This sort of top-down/bottom-up perspective has led numerous Americans to believe the motivations of the two parties to be a conflict of brotherly classes, with Republicans representing largely the rich, and Democrats representing largely the poor.Undoubtedly, the largest differences between the two major parties exist in the social platforms of each. The GOP is composed broadly speaking of those who are socially conservative, the Democratic Party, of those who are socially liberal, but there are certainly those within each party whose beliefs vary. The Democratic Party generally supports legislation promoting social tolerance, i. e. policies which limit the governments ability to tell any person what to do, provided that they not transgress upon the rights of others.This amounts to policies in favor of things gay marriage and marijuana legalization and policies unlike to abortion restrictions, welfare drugs tests and public funding of religious institutions and schools. The GOP generally supports social legislation which maintains the status quo, protecting the foundation of America which those before us have provided. In this manner, the GOP usually favors legislation that protects the sanctity of marriage (i. e. ne man, one woman), prevents drug addicts from receiving welfare and prevents people from harming themselves with drug use, and the GOP generally opposes legislation that would allow any of the previous things to occur. Interestingly, however, the GOP strongly supports the exercise of the Second Amendment to its fullest capacity, opposing almost any gun control law, while the Democrats generally favor gun control with respect to some of the more dangerously apt guns such as assault rifles or even some semi-automatic rifles.In ground of demographics and geography, the Democrats and Republicans are rather contrasting. By and large, the Republican Party is most stringy in the South and Midwest, while the Democratic Party gains its power mostly from the North and the West coast. Republicans are more likely to be older, more wealthy, more religious and white (th ough this obviously does not mean all Republicans are white). Democrats are more likely to be younger, more educated and more ethnically varied than the Republican Party.These snapshots into the average Democrat or the average Republican must be taken with a atom of salt, however, as demographics and geographic are not causes of the party composition, but except correlations which have been concluded. While the Democrats and Republicans have long been considered bitter rivals, and for the most part it is true, the two major parties in America are not quite as disparate and incongruous as many would think.They both have the same major goals for the economy, but only the methodology differs. They have different ideas for social policy, stemming from the more religious and more secular worldviews which most Republicans and most Democrats respectively hold. With the differences aside from both, the Democrats and Republicans in political offices do come unitedly to prevent the one w hich they fear most the success of any deuce-ace party. Both parties will stop at nothing to maintain any(prenominal) power they each have.