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>>It's not about strong government control or not - it's about responsibility.
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>>"Republican" ideology is a view that people must have freedom and must be responsible for the consequences of their own actions/inactions. "Democratic" ideology is to deflect, re-assign, or otherwise avoid personal responsibility where unfavorable - usually in favor of "group responsibility".
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>>If you stop and think about it - this is perfectly in line with both parties leanings on both social and economic issues.


>Now that is a little extreme. I don't think Webster's will take your definition of "democratic" by a long shot.

I don't deny that my wording of it is a little - uh - "partisan" (kind of like those hand counts huh?) - but I believe the theory is correct and holds up well when analyzing the parties' stance on issues.