Ch 1 American Political Landscape

Question 1

Politics

Answer 1

the distribution of scarce resources

-who gets what when and how

Question 2

Cultural Literacy

Answer 2

Expectations to have a basic overview of history/politics

Question 3

Political spectrum from left to right

Answer 3

Radical Liberal Moderate Conservative Reactionary

Question 4

where do the huge majority of people reside?

Answer 4

center

Question 5

tolerance

Answer 5

freedom to act as one wants

Question 6

left or right?

sympathetic to gov stepping in to create equality

Answer 6

left

Question 7

democrats

Answer 7

left, equality

Question 8

liberal progressives what side?

opposite?

Answer 8

left

conservative retro-gressives

Question 9

Libertarians what side?

opposite?

Answer 9

right

ACLU

Question 10

Facists

what side? opposite?

Answer 10

right

communists

Question 11

Anarachists/paramils

what side? opposite?

Answer 11

right

left guerrillas

Question 12

what does the political matrix look like in each direction?

Answer 12

left: more gov involvement in ECONOMIC life
top: more gov involvement in PERSONAL BEHAVIOR
right: less gov involvement in ECONOMIC life
bottom: less gov involvement in PERSONAL BEHAVIOR

Question 13

what does each line mean in the political matrix?

Answer 13

linear horizontal line- wallet line (economic issues)

vertical line- bedroom (social issues)

Question 14

Republicans capital R means?

FREEDOM

Answer 14

referring to political party as a group

Question 15

Conservatives
Retro-gressives
(FREEDOM)

Answer 15

(root word conserve) try to keep things the way they are
expand upon them/push them forward
BOTH- preserving and not progressing, extreme of this=facists

Question 16

Facists (extreme)

FREEDOM

Answer 16

belief system (facism) where there’s an embrace of the past, have romanticized idea of traditional order (unlike communists traditionalist views) where superiority is higher up vertical separation of ppl looking backward

Question 17

Libertarians

FREEDOM

Answer 17

also want freedom but believe it is earned and gained on an INDIVIDUAL level unlike ACLU

Question 18

Democrats capital D means?

EQUALITY

Answer 18

political party of spectrum

Question 19

Liberals/Progressives

EQUALITY

Answer 19

look at traditionalism and find it stuck in time, need to move on & progress, something before & now we are moving -> future

Question 20

Communists (extreme)
(EQUALITY)
ex?

Answer 20

very little vertical separation of ppl, no strong/superior attacking weak, ppl all on same plain
ex: women & race-> communists saw natural progression moving from men being dominant (traditionalism view)
everyone looking eye to eye EQUALITY goal of extreme nation

Question 21

ACLU

EQUALITY

Answer 21

American Civil Liberties Union, legal organization to make sure everyone is realizing their social freedoms

Question 22

Leftists Guerrillas

EQUALITY

Answer 22

want to overthrow gov and start over

Question 23

Centrists, Elites, & Masses

elites vs masses?

Answer 23

political center, largest # of votes
not extreme forms of either R or L
elites- movers/shakers of society 
masses- rest of us
(elites & masses- equal # on both sides of political spectrum)

Question 24

Nobody has a ____ on the groups/ attitudes/ values dealing with the political spectrum

Answer 24

monopoly

Question 25

Alexis deToqueville

wrote what? why? ex?

Answer 25

wrote about Cowboy Irony (come to America and be anything)
irony bc very things that make america great make it in conflict
-freedom to be an individual is tied to us coming together and have such a good military/strength)
as america becomes the hero, it undermines its essence/national ethos