1)Cutting government spending
Goldwater takes a hard hit to the idea of the government supporting the less fortunate. He believes that although
Book Review: The Radical and the Republican by James Oakes James Oakes, a historian and renowned professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is also the author of the book The Radical and the Republican. His book goes into details depicting the debates and the civil war, which took place in the mid-1800.These debates were focused on Fredericks Douglass’s attitude towards slavery and the emancipation of slaves, as well as the political attitude of Abraham Lincoln. Oakes story is voiced through the lives of these two great spokesmen, going into details about their political and public positions. James Oakes thesis for the book is summed up in this quote, “Lincoln and Douglass were very different men. True, there were…
Ronald Reagan’s, A Time for Choosing Speech, main points are as follows: did we still retain the knowledge of the definition of freedom according to our Founding Fathers? “It’s time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers” (Reagan 1). Did we still define government on those founding beliefs? A people that could be self-governed or would we continue to redefine our definition of government until it was completely transformed into totalitarianism. Reagan believed there was no right or left to decide between; he believed there was only a government and people evolving or decaying.…
I have personally read Wes Moore’s book and went to see him speak in McCain Auditorium this past week. Personally I thought it was very interesting how he really didn’t talk as much about the book as I thought he might. He talked about how the title was created and more about the backstory of the book. While I was reading the book I could see many theories from our lectures, and also picked up on some things he said in his speech.…
Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism gives an account of President Johnson’s political career and connects it to the larger liberal movement in America. Bruce Schulman said that Johnson’s career “offers an unparalleled opportunity for investigating U.S politics and public policy from the 1930’s to the 1970’s. To study LBJ is to survey his times, for Johnson was a historical lightning rod, a huge presence that attracted and absorbed the great forces of his era.” The main point of this book seems to that Johnson was the biggest champion and representative of liberalism; therefore, he is crucial for understanding it. Most Americans seemed to have accepted liberalism and the welfare state, however, people still argued exactly how much government…
McGirr describes how this movement adapted, it began as a more extreme one that focused on anti communism (demonstrated by the John Birch Society), but after Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964 shed the extremist label and embraced more single-issue social conservatism that culminated in the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan. She describes how these suburban pioneers created new political and social philosophies anchored in a fusion of Christian fundamentalism, xenophobic nationalism, and western…
However, even within this tame political arena, Democrats still identified strongly with their candidates and rooted intensely for them, and vice versa for Republicans. Although past electorates were undoubtedly just as zealously partisinal as contemporary voters, the political polarization seen today is unlike the partisanship of the past. Transitioning from an age of high politics, American Congressmen, in recent years, have no longer been unified by the external threat of the Soviet Union (or any serious international threat for that matter); instead of debating foreign policy, domestic issues have filled the gap. Now free to debate every manner of domestic issue, party lines have become more concrete, leading to an excavation of the center of the bell curve and a decline in ‘across the aisle’ mingling. In contrast to prior decades, it was enthusiastic partisanship for their candidate (and by extension, their party) rather than having fundamentally incompatible beliefs that fueled their pious…
Although the nation mistook sophistry for wisdom, during president Calvin Coolidge’s presidency, they soon began to believe his philosophy years later, when Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1945. Today, Coolidge’s warning in regard to federalism, have come to pass. The Federal Government has increased its power in regulating the economy, and the States have become administrative districts. The Federal Government continues to stand at an all-time high in national debt, and reoccurring lies from the media continue to be ongoing. Again, Franklin Roosevelt may have attracted more attention and fascination than Coolidge did during his presidency however, today’s policy problems demonstrate that we may need a Coolidge instead of a Roosevelt to restore the Republic back to…
Buckley, Jr.) and a popular grassroots anticommunist movement, and their slow but steady convergence in the next decades, culminating in the heydays of American conservatism: the Reagan “Revolution.” In this process the first generation of neoconservatives played a crucial role, by providing the intellectual power and institutional framework of a kind of “managerial conservatism” that legitimized conservatism at the highest intellectual and policy circles. (Critchow, 105). There were some critical take-away points that must be realized under this new administration. The first takeaway is that it is always about the economy (along with taxes).…
In “The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln,” Sean Wilentz successfully argues that the election of 1828 represented a democratic revolt of the people as the election was crucial to the development and maintenance of the second-party system. Not only is Wilentz the George Henry Davis Professor of History at Princeton University, but Wilentz is also a successful author who has won many awards including the prestigious Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the Albert J. Beveridge Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Bancroft Prize. In his analysis, Wilentz claims that the election of 1828 marked an evolution in the American political system as Andrew Jackson became a symbol of political power as he appealed to the common man. In fact, Wilentz successfully argues that Jackson’s election and presidency lead to the development and mobilization of political organizations which significantly shaped future presidential elections. Therefore, in “The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln,” Wilentz successfully proves that the election of 1828 represented a democratic revolt of the people as the election…
The author of this article, George F. Will, is a Pulitzer Prize winner. He is mostly known for his conservative remarks on politics. In 1968 he obtained his PhD in politics, which allows the audience to view his facts and points as reliable. His award winning journalism and high level of…
A new conservatism rose to prominence in the United States between 1960 and 1989 because of growing distrust of the liberal government, new free-market solutions to the problem of widespread disappointment in liberal actions, and a decrease in proper ethics and morals. During this time period, presidential candidates pushed towards a more conservative point of view as the masses changed the ideals of living in America. As the social and economic standpoint of America as a world power grew, the American people needed to adjust their way of living. Starting with President John Kennedy as a republican president and ending this period of time with Ronald Reagan, a conservative president, the presidential shift represents the social, economic, and…
Barry Goldwater was an American politician, a published author, businessman, father to four children, and a United States presidential candidate in 1964 against John F. Kennedy. Born in Phoenix, Arizona territory on January 2, 1909, Goldwater wasn’t always the type of person to be seen as a politician, he ran his family’s department store full time as a dropout from college after his father’s death. During the time he was running the store Goldwater began to take interest into airplanes and flying. When the United States went into WW2 he was not able to fly planes, he was supervisor over cargo shipments. After the war, Goldwater was unable to continue his family’s department store and began to take on politics, at first he was only involved…
A caucus is a group of people, politicians in this case, that have shared concerns or directions for the government. They can be political parties, but usually it is within the larger memberships, legislative bodies, that we find multiple caucuses on both sides of the aisle. The House Freedom Caucus is one based on conservative principles and aligned with the Tea Party Movement. A party conference is organized to determine the leadership positions and the goals inside those particular groups, a rallying of support and unification of the political agendas. The strength of each party and the membership play a crucial part in passing laws, a majority of votes can implement those that they support, the numbers vary on how many are needed in particular situations, and if they will…
The two major topics that will be discussed in this paper is why the candidate failed and what were some things that he or she did right during their short run for office. Remember; GOP stands for Grand Old Party. Carly Fiorina had similar views as the GOP, but there were some noticeable differences. Education is important because it helps develop the country in many ways and both the party and Fiorina know this (Results, 2013). Each wants high national standards that will challenge students to reach their full potential and wants the state and local governments to take full control (Strauss, 2012).…
The Role of the Citizen in a Constitutional Democracy Despite major conflicts and social changes, the American Constitution has offered a framework of governance for over two hundred years. The Framers of the American constitution sought to create a government free of tyrannical rule—where power derives from the consent of the governed. The US constitution outlines a form of national government that aims to serve the American people by protecting their rights and liberties. The US constitution is succinct and difficult to amend; congress has only passed twenty-seven amendments since the ratification of the constitution. In this essay, I will analyze the arguments Robert Dahl’s presents in his book “How Democratic is the American Constitution”…