THE RISE OF POLITICAL CONSERVATISM 1980 1992
THE ELECTION OF RONALD REAGAN IN 1980
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They believe poor people don’t really want help.
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They believe that citizens should try to rely more on themselves.
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They believe the government doesn’t have enough money to pay for it.
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They believe welfare is morally wrong.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Conservatives took heart from Beveridge’s insistence that the Welfare State should not be a dependency state and tried to make it into more of an ‘opportunity state’. For example, if people started up their own private pension scheme they rewarded them with tax breaks.
Detailed explanation-2: -Social conservatives are concerned with the moral education and possibly age-inappropriate information children receive from sex education classes in public schools. They prefer abstinence-only sex education for its compatibility with traditional Christian ethics regarding chastity and the sanctity of marriage.
Detailed explanation-3: -Conservatives believed in traditional and cultural values. They were the people who supported monarchy and nobility. They believed that privileges of the monarchy and nobility should exist. After the French Revolution, they contended that gradual changes should be brought in the society.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Conservatives generally opposed the idea of change in the eighteenth century. By the nineteenth century, however, they accepted that change was inevitable. They believed that the past had to be respected and that change had to be brought about through a slow process.