3.3 American Parties
Do Now:
Can you be too open-minded?
Political Spectrum
Left
Right
Radical---Progressive---Moderate---Conservative---Reactionary
Change
Status Quo
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How would you identify yourself on the political
spectrum?
Reactionary
Conservative
Moderate
Progressive
Radical
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Reactionary
Conservative
Progressive
Radical
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Which political party do you identify with?
Republican
Democrat
Other Party
Independent
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If I was eligible in the previous election I would have
voted.
True
False
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I would have voted for:
Romney
Obama
Other
Party Self-Identification
Use the Party Issue Identification Exercise to determine
which party you would belong to if you followed the
issues.
Make sure to answer the open ended reflection at the
end.
Jonathan Haidt
Watch the following video to learn more about
how people group themselves by political
ideology. Maybe at the root it’s not really about
issues?
Third Parties?
This is a “Two-Party” system right?
There aren’t any rules directly excluding other
parties from taking part in politics. There are
some other parties that are active in politics,
though since reconstruction 99% of major
politicians at the national level have been from a
Major Party.
Libertarian Party
The Libertarian Party is a party of small
government. They believe that the government
should serve only the most basic function as
protector of rights.
Green Party
The Green Party is focused on environmentalism,
civil rights, social justice, non-violence and anticorporatism.
3.3 Assignment
Answer the following questions in one cohesive essay.
•Can you be too open-minded?
•Does Jonathan Haidt’s open-minded distinction make sense
to you in the context of American Politics? Or does his
measures of ideology make more sense (harm, fairness,
ingroup, authority, purity)?
•Do you fit well into a single major party? Or are you a
mixture? Or are you a third party rebel?