What is a Conservative? 

Watch School of Life their awesome too.

just don't watch After the Bell

Julian A. A. Young evidence? I know of plenty who benefitted from affirmative action, as well as the wider implication of being role models for disadvantaged people.

Mark B I don’t remember where the stat is (I promise I’ll send it as soon as I find it, shouldn’t take too long though) but they saw a large amount of African American drop outs in colleges and universities because the added points to the SAT put them in a spot where they qualified to pass and had to dropout because of the expectations

This video is incredibly biased and wildly inaccurate. Obviously there is a heavy bias to the strange American use of political terms, in which most words mean their opposites.

Politics is not really about ideology. Politics is about power and money.

@@thomasjamison2050 I think that politics has a lot to do with ideology as well. People have strong pride in their values and ideology contains those values.

Finally! Someone who made a political comment on a youtube video and isn't completely deranged!

Thank you

hahaha

Difference being, you can be a proud socialist. Openly being a bigot is counter-intuitive to say the least.

I am neither.

I use bug spray in my bias.

+Keith Hughes (HipHughes) pat Buchanan paleoconservative

Duh dummy..hes being factual and omitting his personal views. Hes providing an explanation. Get over yourself.

@@JulianAAYoung Dude, he did not say one was good and one was bad, he just stated what they are, not what some media mogul tries to make them out to be but the actual definitions of what they are. Just because you do not like the definition of liberalism as being what it is, because you bought into Rush Limbaugh and others who have redefined it, does not mean he is being inaccurate.

@@JulianAAYoung , And you must be a fake conservative who buys into anything Donny Tramp says !!

I agree with you to a point. There is a LOT of good on both sides. BUT, just like a election with many parties ends up with a winner who pleases only a few.... to gather together helps the voting public focus on candidates and concepts that will please more of the population and get things done. Washington has enough trouble getting work done with the factions it has. Had everyone be out for their own without flag ships NOTHING would get done. - oh wait... only the aims of the richest by those willing to sell their votes.

That's where Centrism comes in but very hard to pull of correctly. A lot of people claim to be Centrist and they are not as they show much biased towards one side

Veto labels, vote for people.

Don’t destroy all labels

This

Is conservatism about no change at all to the system, cause sometimes some social change are needed, or a revolution like the American one, right? Cause I like having your limits and values, but also want fast change if crucial.

I usually find myself being someone what liberal, but I thought for a long time that it was because I didn't know much about Conservatives. I completely agree, it has been impossible to find non biased videos about this. I'm not sure how I stand now, but I agree with your comment!

+Raizor Endenium Pat Buchanan paleoconservative

+Aaron S Sorry that you have difficulty with history/reality in regard to the failed conservative ideology . Possibly you have been reading or listening to the radicals which can be found on both sides of the isle. Bottom line here is that conservatism has never been a success in any country of the world at any time. The 30 + yrs since the election of Reagan clearly has proven that the trickle down economics thinking of the right where they claim " a rising tide lifts all boats" has proven to be a failure yet they still attempt to sell such thinking to the small minded. In that 30+ yr. period conservatives got exactly what they claimed was best when the wealthy saw a 275% increase of income verses 40% for the middle class. The result was not a rising tide lifting all boats but instead a worse economy. Such thinking by conservatives goes against what any economist without a political agenda well tell us which is that the middle class, not the wealthy, buy the vast majority of goods and services and anything that takes from the middle class hurts the economy. Consider what happened in Europe when in a knee jerk decision resulting from the financial crisis caused by what even conservative Al Greenspan admitted was the result of "flawed conservative ideology". Many European countries cut social programs that took from the middle class and the result was double/triple dip recession. Conservatives in the U.S. attempted to double down on the problems they caused by cutting social programs citing the same study as Europe for proof. Paul Ryan among others cited the study at every opportunity until is was later proven wrong by a grad school student now they no longer want to talk about the study. If conservatives had their way we would have suffered the same double /triple dip recession as Europe. The flawed conservative ideology conservative Al Greenspan spoke of was in regard to OTC Derivatives which were the leading cause of the financial crisis. 10 yrs prior B. Born of the Clinton Administration warned congress that if conservative ideology prevailed and OTC derivatives remained unregulated a financial crisis would result. Since at the time $ was being made until it wasn't Greenspan and cronies convinced congress Born was wrong and that conservative failure cost the U.S. economy 20+ trillion dollars not to mention what it did to the world economy. And still even today conservatives embrace the same policies that caused the problem. Conservatives continuously push for tax breaks for wealthy so called job providers yet when such people get tax breaks it doesn't translate to jobs. The reason is quite simple because the wealthy are not the job providers. The consumers are the real job providers. History clearly shows the economy prospered when the top marginal tax rate for the wealthy was 90%. The reason was not because of the high taxes but that the middle class were doing well at the time. As previously mentioned the middle class buys the vast majority of goods and services. Even if your job is making corporate jets for the Walton family which owns Walmart or for the CEO of GM in both instances most of the companies products are sold to the middle class not the wealthy. Warren Buffett and Mitt Romney are not buying the vast majority of cheap plastic junk and Fruit of the Loom undies from Walmart and GM sells far more pickup trucks and cars to the masses than Cadillacs to Mitt Romney . Ronald Reagan tripled our debt , Dubya double it again and if you understand how government pays its bills you should realize that the debt under Obama was the result of the financial crisis caused by "flawed conservative ideology "where less revenue came in to pay the bills and as a result $ had to be borrowed to make up the difference. The financial crisis came BEFORE Obama was elected. Obama had less new spending than any president in recent history. Conservatives claim Obama does not go by the constitution but cannot supply specifics. They claim his executive orders are excessive yet he has issued fewer than any president since Grover Cleveland who left office in the 1890's. They claim Hillary is to blame for what happened in Benghazi but after 1 independent investigation and 7 or 8 investigations by conservative all they have to show is millions of dollars in costs and you and I got the bill $. During the Clinton yrs conservatives wasted 70 million dollars on White Water and found NOTHING ! You and I paid for that as well. How about the 50 + million dollars wasted on congress voting to repeal O Care or the 24 Billion dollars lost when conservatives shut down the government when they were holding no cards and proved they don't know how the legislation they are responsible for works. Why did they not realize that after O Care became law O could not have repealed it even if he wanted ? They looked like fools and attempted to turn attention to a poor roll out of O Care which later met ALL of its goals. Bottom line here is that most of you haven't a clue as to what REALLY caused the financial crisis, don't understand that social programs do not equal communism and support a conservative party that doesn't support you or what is best for our country. Conservatives would not vote against the billions of dollars given to big oil each year and really have no problem with entitlements which was proven by their passage of Medicare Prescript Part D in 2003 by a conservative house/senate and signed by a conservative president Dubya. Obviously that entitlement was a gift to big pharma costing you and I a trillion dollars. The conservative architect of the plan was rewarded for that gift by big pharma with a very lucrative job and quit politics. Wake up and stop being part to the problem. Ignorance is the enemy of democracy and the small minded conservatives have ignorance in spades.

Aaron.. I AGREE. Glad to find this channel. To learn about both sides without hearing the propaganda and slander. GREAT news!

wiki seems to disagree''Classical liberalism is a political ideology and a branch of liberalism which advocates civil liberties and political freedom ''

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@@PolarisSGL he probably means he's somewhere in the middle, but leaning towards the right.

+Kyle Parrish yer velcome.

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+Landon Wright most conservatives seem to hate social programs that would help people get equal opportunities

+Olivia Harrison no social programs help people get equal outcome. Like if a guy works hard his whole life to get a job that nets him 200k a year the gov shouldn't take his cash to give to a lazy person that slept their way through high school and works at McDonald's. But conservatives are for common core which even though it hasn't done well it gives everybody equal education and what you make of it is on you

+Olivia Harrison Why should someone who is successful have to pay for these social programs? Just because you say so?

Conservatives think they believe in equal opportunity not knowing that everyone doesn't have the same starting points. Liberals believe we should all have some sort of an ok starting point and after that you do what you have to do. Conservatives believe everyone that's born has the same opportunities as everyone else when that's demonstrably false.

+ryacus no smart guy. Conservative republican nominated president Ronald Reagan started the war on drugs and then heavily policed urban areas to target and demonize minorities hippies that were liberal. We already knew this and have been saying it for years but only recently have one of Reagans top men came out and admitted it. With the government taking away union jobs that many black people had and outsourcing them over seas the black people began looking for other means to provide which happened to be drugs, but then we were demonized and jailed because of it. This forced women to be single parents, they needed help due to a corrupt system that the Conservative party was so proud of.

Agreed

Look into libertarian socialism, friend. We like freedom.

@@traceyrice4978 Libertarian socialism is definitely interesting, NGL

@@traceyrice4978 socialism wants equality. You need government control to achieve equality. Libertarian socialism cannot work.

Libertarians are idiots.

@@traceyrice4978 that’s a stupid concept. If libertarianism is about being as individualistic as possible and socialism is about everybody functioning a equal society how can you be a libertarian socialist?? Idiots just put words together that don’t really mean anything.

This is a really good point. I knew something was missing but I couldn’t put the words to it. Thank you :)

Tune, I think you are right. Scary. I wonder if experiencing that scary thought would make our own belief's more circumspect? I hope Keith can do it for us. I don't want to read the whole thing.

Li🅱️erals be like “The ICE, police, and Trump are neo nazis, and if you think I’m wrong, don’t you DARE try to explain why, I will screech at you and call the same police that I consider nazis and power abusive”

You want him to describe nazism **without** being critical? 🤨

Fiscal conservative here. Vehemently distrust Christian influences in politics and law of the land. I do believe in God, just not Christian. I support first amendment to its full extend. Will vote democrat though I do not agree with all of their policies. But I will vote anything not to let this country become an Iran of the Western hemisphere

meet too

I use to be a progressive before I became Conservative.

+Zachary Clark me too

ytsur8599 Conservatives should learn that their system have nothing to do with progress, and everything to do with giving up social liberties and rejecting compassion.

ytsur8599 See you fucking idiot, I can do it to.

I'm an atheist, and I'm intrigued by what you mean by "so called 'science'". To be clear, I'm not here to argue, I'm simply here to answer questions if you have any, and maybe ask a few of my own.

+Victoria Joy "Teachings of atheism" what does that mean? If you don't believe in a god(s) then you are an atheist. That's it. There are liberal atheist, conservative atheist, whatever. Learning more about science and the workings of the universe can lead a person to be an atheist, but teaching science is not teaching atheism. Also, what is "So called" science?

I'm a atheist Libertarian and I believe in science so please fuck yourself

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+octopusievideos of course

It was refreshing lol

James Kenny Thanks Hames for the sub. I am toying with the idea, I am not sure how much time I want to spend on it, honestly the intention was for AP Gov but the idea of doing an AP Comparative Gov might be fun.

Keith Hughes I learned a lot about governance by doing comparative analysis. I honestly felt like I learned more about political systems in college by studying ways other countries do things. It gives students an opportunity to break out of their indoctrinations, without feeling like they are being unpatriotic or whatever. The thing I feel like I need to point out, regarding the matrix thing, is that it is comprised of an average of the respondents positions. What I found interesting from studying other countries political systems was how much their Authoritarianism, or Libertarian, Economic liberalism, or Control, were so dependent on the particular issue. I'll give an example: There was a study done on organ donor rates in Europe. Lots of theories had been proposed that had to do with North/South religious behavior, or social conservative views. The study argued that the strongest reason for the odd pattern of organ donors was whether the country used an opt-in, or opt-out approach. It had so much more to do with seemingly innocuous policy than any of this political spectrum stuff. So to try and close out before I ramble on too much. Where would The Netherlands fall? Is it a conservative country, or liberal? I think there is a lot to learn by looking at other countries as a way to look at the U.S. Sorry, I was a bit all over the place there...........I agree talk about Europe! Have you done a video on the history of the various Federal Banks?

Useful in clouding the water. Sadly his understanding and teachings are not unbiased and correct. The lazy want all the social programs until they get forced to pay for them, then they say hey, that’s not fair! I’m working harder than so and so! Conservatives are not interested in government control. They want less of it. They want only laws that pertain to everyone. No special interest groups. Special interest group laws should be down the chain in the State laws. They are not against cultures and intellectuals. They just don’t want to support division. A unified general keep it simple form of law. The problems we all suffer from now is all the special interest peoples grabbing at funding that doesn’t benefit all.

David M (G. k. Chesterton)

+JackCrafty A Fascist

+JackCrafty Pretty sure that's authoritarian.

+JackCrafty A liberal socialist, because in this case, the government is controlling and regulating the economy with the intention of providing opportunities of independence and protection to everyone. Fascism happens when a government ditctates the lives of its citizens, what they should think, what they can do, what they can say, what religion they can follow, so on and so forth, it's not really about control or regulation of the economy, one can be a fascist/authoritarian and a socialist or capitalist.

Thanks Amael.

+JackCrafty You are very welcome, I'm glad I could help.

If so then why is the current VP a poster child for the Religious Right?

Sir, you are absolutely right.

Martin Moore Well said...... I wish I had the patience for these uneducated, indoctrinated liberals like you. I am not that cordial.

Storm Simpson What's the confusion? Give an example.

Storm Simpson Do you? You made the claim, now prove your point.

Storm Simpson Don't respond then if it is "wasting your time."

Ha it's funny how 90% of ivy league students and professors are liberals

Right they like having schools that don't compete so they can keep hiking up tuition rates and make more money

Alex Wang First of all your last name is another word for penis ..2nd of all most people become conservative after college

Question- Is Man-Made Climate Change a myth?

Alex Wang Spanish people cannot be racist duhhhhhhhh

This looks plagiarized. How about something quick and to the point. Concervatives don't believe in individual freedom. Concervatives believe in religious values or traditional values. They don't believe in live and let live,always dictating to people about how they should live thier lives. Now that's the real definition of a concervative.

Not true , almost no liberals these days , that actually play a huge role in politics do support the free market , in fact they are constantly regulating it.

True , but the liberalism you are talking about shifted over to the term ''Libertarianism'' . By todays 52% of people identifying as liberals support socialism.

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We don’t want democracy in the United States either!

@@samuelpierre-louis384 who’s we? I like things the way they are👍

@@ghn_yug3351 I’m with you on that!

liberalism is the worst idea in human history

Hydro_ XPatriotX No it's not. And I'd like you to prove how it is.

+Collin Berend doesn't work in Europe how does it work in America?

Hydro_ XPatriotX Do you even know what system they use in Europe (which is a Continent, not a fucking country). What they use there would be liberalism here. The left here is not the left there. Just like Conservationism is not like it is there or even Canada. The Republican Right in the US is 100x more right than the right in Europe. Their Conservatives would be considered liberals. Liberalism, based on the location, is very different. Europe is a very progressive area. Some of their best nations are eve socialist. And look at classical American Liberalism. That does work and is in synch with working political ideologies in Europe. US Liberal =/=/ European Liberal

+Collin Berend sure but the original left enslaved African Americans...

Say you had the power to implement a voluntarist/libertarian/anarcho-capitalist society in the United States. What would that society look like in the modern world.

***** We are trying to do that at the moment. freestateproject.org/ Hopefully we can turn New Hampshire into something like. fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/how-policing-works-in-a-privatized-city but it'll never be 100% voluntaryist due to the federal level. In theory, we would be 1.4-1.8x more wealthy due to the tax money that we would retain. In a 100% voluntaryist society there would be a heck of a lot of business competition, intellectual property would mean nothing apart from NDA agreements which would allow for much more innovation. Capitalism would fulfill it's true potential in developing new technologies and bringing about a better way of life for consumers. Walking down a street you could see all kinds of houses and buildings due to no centralized building regulations, maybe even some of those earthships. Insurance companies would take a much more active role in prevention to avoid costly conflict and would be involved in a lot more industries such as childcare and dispute resolution. Anything you want could be ordered online, drugs, guns, you name it. It would be so different in almost every way that to a statist, it would feel totally alien.

Called a Statist

+Deadly Meep Oh okay I would be a leftist then but what I wanted to know is why am I so far to the "Libertarian" side on the political compass web site but not considered a Libertarian? Or put another way; why can only those on the right be considered Libertarian while being a leftist is taken as being Authoritarian even though I'm far closer to Libertarian on the compass? Are you sure that rightists don't just 'tend' to also be libertarians while leftists do not? It was my understanding that you could be liberal and a libertarian.

+Deadly Meep "I'm guessing you want the government to regulate businesses more but not to control people's lives as much" Yep that sounds like me :) You were right about me in the first comment except for the opposing personal freedom part. I'm pro choice, for gay marriage and pretty much for anything that doesn't hurt other people or infringe on their rights. But I do think that businesses have a prerogative to take actions that benefit their company above others' well being and the world at large and that government is needed to prevent unethical business practices and to prevent things like anticompetitive monopolization, so that businesses don't make the rules that smaller competing businesses have to play by.

If we all just learned to learn together.

Conservative look to states rights

I think it is the opposite.

Ill check the playlist order. thanks.

That's their point. They have nothing