The Influence of Political Parties in America - Navneet Pathak

Political parties - two words many fail to recognize the importance of in the political world of today, tomorrow, and yesterday. What I mean by this of course is political parties have always been an essential and important part of our history. They represent our views and make our voices heard; they make sure our views transform into law. Without political parties, America's political elections would be a mess. Imagine there being hundreds of independent candidates that, if you wish to find more information on their views, you would have to research every single one. With political parties, you can narrow your candidates to a specific party and start your research from there. Political parties bring views otherwise unheard of to the national stage.

The party I choose to write about is the Republican Party, otherwise known as the GOP. As previously stated in my first post, my parents are liberal Democrats and are immigrants from India so I was raised to be a Democrat. I had never paid much attention to politics so I never did my own research. However, around the 2016 election and after doing my own research I discovered many of my views aligned with the candidates of the GOP party which surprised me at first. I believe this party represents my views best compared to other parties. The Republican party believes in smaller federal, state, and local governments. They also believe in lower taxes, are against medicare/Obamacare, oppose environmental regulation, in military expansion, and believe that America should be energy independent. The GOP is one of 2 major parties in the US, the other being the Democratic party. The Democrats are primarily liberal, whereas Republicans are primarily conservative.

This blog post from cruz.senate.org was posted on October 13, 2018. The blog posts are a place for people to gain insight on the views of Republican Texan senator Ted Cruz. In this blog post, Ted Cruz explains his view that Medicare part A has wrongly been connected to Social Security. He also states that senior citizens should have the ability to choose a health insurance plan that works for them without losing their Social Security benefits. He also believes tax cuts should be permanent, federal judges should be constitutionalists, and that the military needs to continue to expand.

These views expressed in TED Cruz's post evidently align with Republican views in that Ted Cruz supports military expansion, permanent tax cuts, constitutionalist judges, and opposes medicare. Ted Cruz is a prominent senator who has gained national coverage on his views so this post could influence the views of someone reading it.

Ted Cruz is a Republican Texan senator. He ran for Republican nomination for President in the 2016 elections. As Solicitor General for the State of Texas and in private practice, Ted authored more than 80 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and argued 43 oral arguments, including nine before the U.S. Supreme Court. He also won an unprecedented series of landmark national victories that include his defense of U.S. sovereignty against the UN and the World Court in Medellin v. Texas, our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument at the Texas State Capitol, and the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.