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Revision as of 00:38, July 24, 2008
Generally speaking, liberal ideology in America outlines a system of government which emphasises increased personal freedoms while intervening in the national economy in order to counter market forces. Liberals generally perceive taxation as a means of redistributing wealth and funding public works that could not be adequately supplied through the free market, such as roadbuilding and provision of police forces.
The following are beliefs generally attributed to a liberal outlook. However it should be noted that individuals will often dissent on one or more issues; and some beliefs are also shared by a proportion of conservatives (such as separation of church and state and same-sex marriage).
- Taxation as a means of supplying infrastructure
- Income redistribution through progressive taxation
- Aversion to privatization of national assets
- Government involvement in health care, public education and social welfare
- Decriminalization of psychoactive drugs as opposed to prohibition
- Decriminalization of prostitution
- The advancement of gay rights, including same-sex marriage and child-rearing
- Implementation of affirmative action
- Political correctness
- Separation of church and state
- Support for labor unions
- Sex education in schools, including emphasis on contraception as well as abstinence
- Legalization and/or governmental funding for abortion programs
- Interpretation of the Constitution in a contemporary context (see living Constitution)
- Upholding of First Amendment liberties
- Support for gun control, in opposition to the Second Amendment
- Abolition of the death penalty
- Penal reforms with an emphasis on rehabilitation over punishment
- Legislation and regulation to protect the environment
- Support for nuclear disarmament treaties
- An aversion to interventionist foreign policy (note this is often a conservative ideology as well)
- Reinstatement of the Fairness doctrine
- Opposition to restriction of personal freedoms, such as those imposed under the Patriot Act
- Opposition to placing defensive weapons in space