Liberal or Conservative
Whether conservative or liberal, the growing partisanship in American politics illustrates a stark need for foundational changes to occur. Looking at the Founding Fathers and their primary focus in creating the American system makes the smaller debate over liberal or conservative factions moot. In full, the current debate between a conservative or liberal political focus detracts from the ability to move forward as a nation. Recent events illuminate the overall political reduction that takes place when deciding on an ultimate decision between strictly liberal or conservative policies.
- Liberal or conservative factions seemed to rise to power in varying generations. Especially within the twentieth century, each presidential administration seems to undue the policies of the previous President. For the most part, larger national trends often mirror this presidential shift as each generation lays claim to specific societal movements. The overly used, the grass is always greener, could not be more true than when applied to the American political scene. Consistently, the independent factions in America seem to decide elections as both political parties, either conservative or liberal, require this swing-vote to secure victory.
- Possibly the best example of the persistent choosing between liberal or conservative factions dates back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After five consecutive terms of Democratic rule, the nation underwent a conservative trend in the 1950s. This back-and-forth continues throughout much of American history as the same process would occur after the Kennedy-Johnson reign, to the Nixon-Ford years.
- Although as a nation America has maintained its integral strength in world affairs, many domestic concerns eat away at the overall success. Rather than approaching policy in a comprehensive fashion, the administration in charge often peace-meals together a weak example of their desired goal and hopes that future administrations will bolster their attempts. Many of these policies lack actual political consideration, but due to the partisanship in politics, no issue is left with out political debate.
- This constant fighting between conservative or liberal parties makes any instrumental change impossible. Obama’s recent victory left a glistening impression of the American political scene, but less that just a year after, his administration appears inactive and on the verge of dissolution. Rather than working through change, the focus on American conservative or liberal parties makes the losing party hold out and simply say no. This disallows any type of beneficial policy and hurts the nation in a notable way.
Moving forward to a beneficial American political system, the split between America–liberal or conservative–needs to be repaired in a big way. Either through the induction of a successful third party, or more action-taken place by dissatisfied voters, something needs to shake up the stagnation of the American government.
