Political Ideologies | American Government

This video is part of a complete, condensed American Government series presented in short, digestible summaries.

Course Hero's American Government video series covers all the essentials to understanding the United States's complex political structures. Our short digest covers everything you need to know about the development of the U.S. government, its principles, its structure, and trends in our country's political behavior.

The video series begins with the building blocks of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We explore how the meaning of these documents has evolved through Supreme Court decisions and the civil rights movement.

Along the way, you'll learn:
• The three branches of government
• How a bill becomes a law
• The intricacies of presidential succession
• How Supreme Court justices are nominated

Then the series provides a deeper understanding of political behavior in the United States, including:
• How Democratic and Republican parties and their coalitions have evolved since the Civil War
• How the media frames politics
• The role of special interest groups
• The nuts and bolts of congressional and presidential elections

Finally, the American Government crash course includes a primer on how polling works and explains some of the challenges that pollsters face in measuring true public opinion.

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[northchurch]

"Liberalism is a left ideology" As a non-American, this absurd statement blows my mind

[diehardAMD]

Actually, Fascim is NOT far right. Fascism is derived from the Italian word "fasci" which means bundle of sticks. It was when the unions banded together to force demands under Mussolini. National Socialism is Socialism with a National Identity (versus Globalism) with a radical racial hatred. For the Nazis (NAZI is short for National Socialism), it was the Jews. For the Communist Chinese, it's the Blacks (need to see their signs of "No Blacks" if you dare travel there, anyone within their borders not Han such as (pardon me, I know I'm mispelling it) Weigers -> non-Han Muslims in Western China and Tibetans. The Vietnamese were also victims to this for over 1, 000 years and resisted the Communist push on them because both China and Soviet Russia sought to divide their people in order to conquer them. Ho Chi Min sought to unify them and was secretly a Communist (of a different kind) when reciting American Founders including Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson, then turned against the US and revealing his Communist intent. In other words, he was a different kind of Communist.

[calum]

Trying to define myself, but have no idea / ha

[JonahF]

God I hate the American political views so much