Republicans like to lie about their racism. But there was no more stark difference between how the parties handle race than these 2 examples.
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IM2 Differences I've noted between Republicans and Democrats
1. For abortion policies, and trying to BOTH
* defend people with beliefs in right to life extending to unborn persons
from laws established through govt that violate or infringe on this belief
* protect due process for women instead of being "criminalized" by govt
Clearly "more Republicans tend to favor" defending right to life beliefs
while "more Democrats tend to favor" defending women from being criminalized
(while the standard of law I support would protect, include and represent both of these approaches equally)
2. For inherent human rights, and matters of race and gender
* Conservative approaches (which tend to be affiliated with Christians, Constitutionalists, and Republicans)
tend toward the belief that rights are inherent and not dependent on govt granting or acknowledging these.
But the opposite, that people automatically have fundamental rights by human nature,
and the point of laws is to limit govt and prevent govt from overreaching and oppression or violating individual rights.
* Liberal approaches tend to use or rely on govt to establish beliefs and protections.
This is not believed to be inherent without govt publicly establishing laws and rights for all people.
Conservative tend to believe this is already established by the given laws.
But since Liberals do not follow the Constitution "literally"
they tend to rely on MORE laws and MORE rulings to establish rights and protections.
The Conservative approach is to believe and assume those rights are already given by human nature.
3. Democrats tend to foster the image of the "party of the poor blaming the rich"
while the opposite is true of Republicans as "the party of the rich blaming the poor"
4. On guns and immigration/voting:
* Conservatives favor MINIMAL or NO regulation of guns for citizens
(while pushing for
stronger regulations to police immigration and voting).
* Liberals favor open access and support to all people for immigration and voting rights,
(while pushing for
strong regulations to police guns through background checks or bans).
5. In general, I find that
* Conservatives who place God and the Church first, as the central institutional authority and relationship,
will place government secondary, after the PEOPLE (where collectively PEOPLE are the govt and PEOPLE are the church),
so that govt laws should always follow or comply with God's laws and can't supercede or violate them (which is unconstitutional)
* Liberals who place Government first as the central public authority for establishing policy for everyone will place
churches and religious authority second, as an optional choice for people, but not required for everyone to meet that standard.
So one group puts church authority and laws under God first, and then the government laws should follow in harmony and agreement.
The other puts Government first, as the central authority to establish the collective will of the people.
Therefore, again, this is why I advocate for resolving conflicts and differences of beliefs,
so that laws can be made or reformed by AGREEMENT between these two approaches.
Whether one group puts church/people first (then government reflects and follows that where the two are in harmony)
or the other group puts Government first, as representing the public will (and any other church/religious authority or values come second), as long as policies are made by CONSENT of the people, the laws would naturally satisfy both church and state requirements,
(even where church/religious standards remain optional/free choice, and cannot be established by govt).
Otherwise, laws passed that satisfy or favor the bias in beliefs by one group over the other,
cause "discrimination by creed" by not representing and treating people of all creeds or beliefs equally.