Recent polls taken by the Pew Research Center and General Social Surveys show that the main reason for support of marijuana is that the American public fails to see marijuana has a major moral issue (Galston, Dionne 1). Compared to gay marriage or abortion, many more Americans are indifferent when it comes to others using marijuana. Those against legalization who consider marijuana to be a gateway drug and a vice argue that legalization will lead an overall increase in consumption of the drug. They argue that legalization will decrease productivity in the workplace, influence children negatively, and increase drug induced automobile crashes. However, the pro-legalization Americans respond in saying increased marijuana use has no lasting health effects, legalization will allow for better regulation of distribution, and marijuana legalization will reduce alcohol consumption in America.
McCain has always been relatively moderate, although does hold some very conservative tendencies for example he is a neoconservative and therefore is especially hawkish on foreign policy. However, McCain remained under the heading of the Republican Party and therefore needed to gain support from a wider audience. Palin’s motherhood rhetoric reflects her purpose as John McCain’s running mate, which was to mobilise voters of the Religious Right along with conservative women who may have been reluctant to vote for McCain in the past; these are a big proportion if the party’s results. This was the main reason why McCain chose Palin; a keen Tea Partier who tried to help rally the Christian Right. This movement from centre to right proves that moderate conservatism is declining as people change when they need to, especially when pulled by the Tea Party and its members.
Tea Party Movement America’s independence comes from two main parties, Republicans and Democrat; however, there have been Parties maneuvering into the spotlight the most recent The Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party Movement. The Tea Party movement is a conservative, libertarian and populist movement and was founded in 2009. As the beliefs of those were that their ideas, beliefs, and agenda’s were not being brought to the attention of the government. As with any movement there are concerns and issues to exactly what is being sought. What exactly does the Tea Party Movement seek, change and not just a quick fix.
Conservative Charles Krauthammer uses parallel structure and figurative language to compare an Obama and Romney presidency. Frank Rich uses diction and ethos to present Romney as a bad person who should not be allowed the presidency. Conservative Ross Douthat’s column talks about the changing demographics of America and how it was part of the reason why the Republicans didn’t win the popular votes. In this column Douthat uses parallel structure by comparing Republicans constituencies and Democratic-leaning constituencies. This establishes ethos because he portrays the Republicans as well-to-do people who go to church regularly while he refers to the Democrats as unchurched and recent immigrants.
EPA Political Implications The EPA has both critics and supporter in the political arena. Most Republican Presidential Candidates and many leading congressional Republicans have bitterly condemned the EPA as creating too much regulation. Although the Republican primary season has passed, speeches by former candidates exhibit the hostility to perceived over regulation by the EPA. The rest of the 2012 Republican presidential field is broadly in agreement with Michèle Bachmann's opinions. Throughout her campaign, Representative Bachmann explained even further than an implicit threat to abolish the EPA by making the somewhat self-contradictory promise to a crowd on August 8, 2011: "I guarantee you the EPA will have doors locked and lights turned
However, there are inevitably some questions arising about the electoral college and whether it still works best for the US today. Some say it should be completely scrapped, with a more democratic direct election taking it's place; others day that it can be mended by reforming it, and the final argument is to defend it, and leave it as it is. One reason to end the electoral college system is because it is not democratic enough. The winner of the nationwide vote could in fact lose the election because of the way the electoral college works. Popular vote winners have been denied the presidency in 1824, 1876, 1888 and 2000.
A current example would be the tea party, which has arisen from the Republican Party, due to the GOP’s supposed neglecting of concern for federal spending, and deficit and tax decreases. Through the formation of the tea party, the Republican Party is being told that it needs to be more conservative in there fiscal spending plans to get those votes that are going to the tea party. If the Republican Party does not move to accommodate these voters, the tea party will only continue to grow, until the Republican Party will be forced to change its position to maintain its voters. Therefore, the tea party will push the Republican Party towards a more conservative view. This is the main purpose of third parties; to show the major parties what they need to do to keep their voters.
More importantly, it is a continuance of American conservative values in opposition to the gradually expanded taxation and government. The situation provides us an opportunity to cast a glimpse into the American values and the essence of a grass-root movement. 1 The Tea Party movement was initiated by a blogger named Keli Carender on February 16th, 2009. She held a rally in Seattle only of 200 against the Obama’s stimulus bill which was just signed the day before. They had not named themselves “Tea Party” yet.
Many of the arguments made by the pro-life team take a moral, ethical, or religious standpoint in their persuasion of others. In order for us to gain a more objective look at the debate with real-world pros and cons, the moral, ethical, and/or religious arguments will not be covered. Abortion has been a topic of controversy in America for almost two hundred years. The earliest known instance of conflict occurred in 1821 when Connecticut outlawed the selling of poisons used to induce abortion in women (Abortion ProCon.org). In 1845, New York began the trend of slapping legal consequences for women who have abortions.
I believe that the Conservative party under Cameron haven't adopted many One Nation policies for these reasons; On terms of economic and the deficit the Conservative party seem more right hinting at the thatcher heyday. David Cameron is clearly in favour of rolling back the state, which is also a major point of Thatcherism. A key point is how Cameron feels about education, he favours privatisation of education and has introduced Free Schools and Finally how the Tory's have in reforming the taxation system have rejected some one nation policies. However it could be argued that the Tory party not cutting the NHS fund and International aid funds is adopting one nation policies. In terms of