Evaluating Liberalism's Impact on US Politics and Culture

This project delves into the multifaceted influence of liberalism on the political, legal, and cultural landscape of the United States. It examines how liberalism shapes modern political decisions, exploring the shift towards a 'big government' perspective and the evolving views of US citizens on economic and social policies. The project analyzes the translation of liberalism into US political discourse, distinguishing between progressive and liberal ideologies and their differing stances on capitalism and the role of government. Furthermore, it explores the impact of liberalism on US culture and society, contrasting it with civic republicanism and assessing the influence of liberalism on individual choices, social movements, and the perception of freedom. The analysis includes an evaluation of both the positive and negative outcomes of liberalism's influence, providing a comprehensive understanding of its role in American society.

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Introduction
Liberalism as an ideology in America is recognised as a far reaching political perspective
positioned on what individuals view as inseparable authorities of people (Milbank & Pabst,
2016). The core liberal standards of freedom of speech, freedom of the media as well as self-
regulation of ethnicities and lastly rights and privileges to do procedure and equality under
the law have been greatly acknowledged across the array of liberal ideology. Caughey and
Warshaw (2016) have stated that liberalism as an ideology in the United States differ from
the idea of liberalism and its effect in other parts of the world. This kind of variance is
positioned because of the fact as the United States has always showed a lack of local
hereditary aristocracy and hence overlooked most of the class conflict which swept Europe.
The aim of the following paper is to evaluate the effects of liberalism on political and legal
actions of the USA as well as on the cultural patterns of the country.
Discussion
Effect of Liberalism on modern political decisions
Effect of liberalism on America's political actions US citizens in recent times are showing
great inclination towards a "big government". As per reports of Gilens and Page (2014) a
widely respected mechanism for measuring ships in ideological judgements across time the
electorate of the United States is highly considerate towards left-wing economic policy which
was not that significant in the past six decades. However, Hertel-Fernandez (2014) has
claimed that evaluating ideological shifts across decades is inherently challenging since a
number of policy think to question the lack of service as time passes while others enter them.
Furthermore, it has been noted that this is conspicuously evident on the grounds of social as
well as cultural policy where former US President Barack Obama's 2008 decision on gay
marriage would put to the right of a number of congressional republicans in 2019. Studies of
Pugh (2014) have revealed that the USA citizens newly developed enthusiasm in support of

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left wing economic policy is not an appropriate outcome of unstable voters who have been
shifting their votes. Moreover, with an increasing number of conservative commentators
along with Republican politicians making populist opinion on economic policy it has been
noted that the GOP voters' views have been inclining towards the ideology of modern
liberalism. Meanwhile, Puhl et al. (2014) have claimed that despite the effect of liberalism
within public's opinions, the previous years have shown less degree of consequentialism in
comparison of the leftward drift in the economic thinking of the USA's elite policy over the
past decade. Modern liberalism has been experiencing a certain level of political siege in the
United States. Meanwhile, liberals have exhibited a certain degree of uncertainty related to
the proper implication and significance of this ideology. Comprehensive studies of Allen
(2018), the US constitution fragments political influence to an extent which has surpassed
most of the democratic countries.
Liberalism translate political discourse of the United States
One of the most pervasive uncertainties in modern American political discourse is the factors
which distinguish a progressive from a liberal. According to Sugg (2015), in a current issue
of the journal democracy, the liberals observed a lack of competence of capitalism which are
inclined towards resolving them and have significant success to their acknowledgement in the
New Deal, the Great Society and the New Frontier. However on the other hand, progressives
are highly anti-liberalism as they are hostile towards capitalism and tend to nurture the desire
that perhaps by means of certain catastrophic event the American capitalism will be
replaced by socialism. At this juncture, Hertel-Fernandez (2014) has noted that the
progressive in the United States are supporters of socialism in its real sense of total public
ownership of monetary resources industry as well as agriculture. Moreover Sugg (2015) has
claimed that progressives advocate in support of socialism which is certainly democratic
socialism along with the social welfare success of the American liberalism and Scandinavian

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social democracy while refuting the comprehensive architecture of these ideologies
(Bialystok, 2014). The only successful way to seek an effective and comprehensive utilisation
of progressive in the USA is to return to its origin of the political currency. Caughey and
Warshaw (2016) have drawn insights of historian Walter Nugent's book on Progressivism
which provides a distinctive opinion of the true meaning of the word progressive. It has
been noted that progressive particularly implied to the idea of public interest or common
good where by the progressive shared and opinion that the common good influences
everyone and must be executed in every possible way. However in this regard such an
approach have shown divergence to the rampant individualism as well as egoistic outlook
which preceded the progressives in the gilded age and for the returned during the 2000s
which is known as the ‘second gilded age’.
In the view of Gilens and Page (2014) the core concept of liberalism in Republican theory
tends to differ significantly from the liberal concept. Liberal theory in contemporary times,
primary sheds light on the importance of the person to make his or her individual choices
regarding the way he or she wants to live life without any kind of undue intervention from the
government or fellow citizens. However civic Republican theory on the other hand
emphasized freedom in relation to self-government which involves comprehensive
participation of citizens in the state of affairs, status quo of the community in addition to the
continual method of determining the mutual destiny of the communities. wine the progressive
in the US during the early 20th century made significant initiatives to reintroduce civic
Republican Liberty by ameliorating the increasing income inequality during those years for
example the progressive income tax establishing new forms of direct democracy for example
the ballot initiative as well as the referendum and making life in urban areas highly
communicable by constructing public parks and playgrounds, industrial capitalism have post
a critical challenge.

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According to Hertel-Fernandez (2014), the industrial capitalism in the United States has
created certain issues not only on the Republican principles and standards based on some to
the liberal principles. However the progressive purpose efficiently surpassed the challenge by
incorporating and initiative to refurbished liberalism as an ideology by attempting to advocate
the conventional and constructive rights illustrated in the first 10 amendments of the US
constitution with a range of positive rights. However, the progressive have claimed that
without the introduction of the living wage, effective healthcare provisions, sufficient
accommodation services along with primary education, the conventional constructive rights
should know real significance towards the betterment of the country. Authors have indicated
that these positive rights are inherently weakening and will encounter challenges unless they
have the advocacy of a well-established and robust community harmony. This form of
consensus can be attained in the contemporary liberal society through civic republican
politics. The need of strong community harmony has been understood by the defining
theorists of the progressive era. Thus it has been noted that democracy in the United States is
not simply recognised as a mechanism intended for majority rule. democracy as per the view
of Puhl et al. (2014) is identified as a continual deliberative procedure where buy barrels of
the individual rights a dress challenges and areas of concerns facing their political community
as a whole as well as not sure its future in corporation. Thus, in other words the negative
rights of liberalism along with the positive rights of civic republicanism have been considered
as mutual necessities for the American political discourse. At this peak of discussion, Pugh
(2014) has noted that liberals in in the United States have described themselves as
progressive and accordingly half right. However for progressive to be accurately
comprehensive must be functioning more than just a synonym for liberal. Progressive in
order to develop the nation must recollect the civic Republican interest of the original
progressive movement etymologically and in practice.

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Liberalism influence in U.S culture and society
The United States is recognised to be comprised of liberalism. Hertel-Fernandez
(2014) has noted that with liberalism the concept of birthright and not of suppression the
Americans perceive freethinking as one of the suppositions of life. Sugg (2015) in studies has
mentioned that few of the new conservatives have revealed that liberalism as an ideology in
America has been certain of the perfectibility of men, while the tradition comprises of
standard of human and reliability and of innovative sin. According to Caughey and Warshaw
(2016) while conservatives in the United In the view of Gilens and Page (2014) , the concept
of liberalism or free thinking have essentially shed light on the fact that socialism upholds its
classical idea of state ownership of the important means of production as well as delivery.
However it is largely because of the reason that the idea of free thinking on liberalism
exhibited certain degree of uncertainty of foundations for political antagonism and liberalism
can India when greatest power and influence execute in the state. Meanwhile, Gilens and
Page (2014) have noted that anti socialism related to the liberalism of the United States has
drawn its origination from an approximation of the organisational uncertainties of the
socialist system.
On the other hand, it has been understood that over emphasis of a number of
politicians helping from the United States currently have been failing to show utmost
competence towards world conviction and directness of the U.S political beliefs. Yet the
practice of the United States along with its freethinking and idea of liberalism has been
positioned profoundly in relation to authorised speech-making or religious hope. Liberalism
or free thinking as a result has been recognised as a manifestation of the national
knowledge which will unquestionably become highly evident to the world when the concept
of liberalism or freethinking as an ideology in a greatly constrained intelligence gets back to
political influence.

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Conclusion
Therefore, from the above discussion it can be concluded that liberalism or freethinking has
shown an uneasy relation with democracy. Nonetheless, at the foundation of democratic
doctrine has provided the belief that the American administration has a tendency to derive
their authority from popular and well-organised election. The concept of liberalism as an
ideology however has been chiefly been concerned with the potential of government
movement. On the other hand, constitutional court of the United States comprises the power
and authority to uphold constitution's protection of political expression in addition to its
certainty of equitable scope for political branches to successfully execute just cause along
with anti-discrimination statuses. Such authorities shed light to the fact that the constitutional
court comprises the authority and power to impose a duty on the political subcategories to
execute corrects methods with an aim to protect constitutional advantages, interests and
welfare.

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