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Politics are often divided into two camps so to speak, the left and right wing. This is important because it is the basis for most modern democracies, they may call the left and right wing different things, but at their core they tend to be the same thing, and they are some of the most heated debates in any democracy. These two camps believe fundamentally different things and that is why the debates tend to be so heated.

America is no different and so on the right you have the Republicans.

Republicans believe in small government and in letting the people and businesses live without gross interference by the government. This is often coupled with a desperate desire to create laws based on morality as seen in the bible, but not always. There are some Republicans who don't believe in legislating for religious purposes, although they tend to make a smaller splash than those who do.

Two such republicans are Scott and Megan. Both college students who are Political Science majors along with their two best friends, and the four of them would often be found debating late into the night.

Megan might be more left wing than Scott but is still right wing. She believes in helping the most vulnerable but that too many people abuse the system and therefore there should be an entire overhaul of the system so that the vulnerable would be taken care of, but that the system would not be abused.

Scott believes in a small government. He does not believe that the job of the government is to baby the citizens, but rather ensure that there is a military, that there are police and fire departments, that there are roads and that there are schools and hospitals. He does not believe that the government should intervene in most matters of the home (although he of course does not support child abuse).

Both republicans often have to put up with abuse from their friends who are democrats for being "horrible human beings" because they do not believe that the answer to everything is more taxes or more spending. Sometimes the answer is to allow the situation to resolve itself.

Other Republicans believe that while there should be small government, there should be moral issues that are legislated for or against. One example would be abortions. The party that believes in small government also believes that abortion should be illegal because of religion. This hypocrisy does not sit well either Megan or Scott but both know that they have no choice, they cannot support democrats when the democrats are so left wing compared to them.

This is a problem that many republicans face every day, as the direction of the party seems to shift almost daily, depending on who is popular that week.