Room for a Conservative View?

[CtraK]

Apr 29, 2009 16:42:43 GMT -5 karl said:

And for the record here in England your conservative party would be The British National Party:- who are basically neo-nazis
Your liberal party would be our conservative party.
and thats it you don't appear to have any other political parties as far as I can see.

Erm, no. Just like there are many British parties but only a few major ones (and no, the BNP isn't a major party), it's the same in the US.

Anyway:

Democratic ~ Labour
Republican ~ Conservative
Constitution ~ Christian Party*
Green ~ Green**
Libertarian ~ Libertarian***

Really, the two major parties on both sides of the Atlantic are probably roughly equivalent to each other; the suggestion that the Republicans are fascists is slightly ridiculous (authoritarian, certainly, but fascist, not really), and it's not like the UK Conservatives have never had their own authoritarian streak either (the Criminal Justice Act 1994 springs to mind).

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*formerly Operation Christian Vote, and yes, FSTDT have mentioned them before.
**obviously.
***turns out there really is a proper Libertarian party in the UK, but they are very new.