By Marcus Hawkins
Updated March 17, 2019
Quite often, those on the left of the political spectrum dismiss political conservative ideology as the product of religious fervor.
At first blush, this makes sense. After all, the conservative movement is populated by people of faith. Christians, Evangelicals, and Catholics tend to embrace the key aspects of conservatism, which include limited government, fiscal discipline, free enterprise, a strong national defense, and traditional family values. This is why many conservative Christians side with Republicanism politically. The Republican Party is most associated with championing these conservative values.
As the periodic bloodshed continues in the Middle East, the search for
an equitable solution must come to grips with the root cause of the
conflict. The conventional wisdom is that, even if both sides are at
fault, the Palestinians are irrational “terrorists” who have no point of
view worth listening to. Our position, however, is that the
Palestinians have a real grievance: their homeland for over a thousand
years was taken, without their consent and mostly by force, during the
creation of the state of Israel. And all subsequent crimes — on both
sides — inevitably follow from this original injustice.
It was mainly the French Revolution, since this then caused the British to tax the Americans rather harshly.
1) The Keating-Owen Act of 1916 passed under Wilson's New Freedom.
2) Group A is the result of the Progressive Era. Direct election of senators is a dead giveaway.
3) The Populist Party, according to some historians, had a close link with the Progressives. This is debatable though.
