Political Alignment

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This paper explores the perceptions that those who ascribe to political affiliations can be successfully labeled and thereafter categorized according to specific preferences and goals associated with the label in question. The paper argues that despite the fact that these events occur with depressing frequency, the process of attaching a label to a certain individual or organization does not result in any actual outcomes.

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"Political Science: Exploring Labels of Political Alignment "Liberal, conservative, neoliberal, neoconservative, not to mention paleoconservative; new left and old left, socialist and democratic socialist- these terms are difficult to pin down with a hard and fast definition even if one thinks only right now. Worse yet, if one tries to define these terms over decades, not to mention a couple of centuries, it is impossible. It is almost as if this array of ill-defined terms serves to confuse the average citizen, to distract her [or his] attention from the fact that the wealthy and powerful have been getting wealthier and more powerful over the past couple of decades with tax cuts favoring the more wealthy, with the American government taking the lead in the world in pushing for globalization even as a decreasing percentage of American workers have health insurance or secure retirement benefits." [

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