0:00 hey there welcome back to heimlich's
0:01 history now we've been going through
0:02 unit 4 of the ap government curriculum
0:03 and in this video it's time to talk
0:05 about how political ideology shapes
0:07 social policy so if you're ready to get
0:09 them brain cows milked then let's get to
0:10 it so in this video here's what we're
0:12 trying to do explain how political
0:14 ideologies vary on the role of the
0:15 government in addressing social issues
0:18 and explain how different ideologies
0:20 impact policy on social issues so in the
0:22 last video we talked about how liberals
0:24 conservatives and libertarians view the
0:25 role of government with respect to the
0:27 economy here we're going to shift and
0:28 talk about how those same ideologies
0:30 view social issues like marriage and
0:32 family and poverty abortion etc now
0:34 here's where i tell you that when it
0:36 comes to conservative and liberal
0:37 ideologies and social issues they defy
0:40 easy clean categories let's start with
0:42 libertarian ideology since they're
0:43 probably the easiest to define when it
0:45 comes to social issues recall that
0:46 libertarians want as little government
0:48 involvement on dang near everything
0:50 which includes social issues to a
0:52 libertarian the only thing the
0:53 government is good for is protecting
0:54 private property and upholding
0:56 individual liberty so legalization of
0:58 marijuana duh why would you want the
1:00 government telling you what you can and
1:01 cannot put in your body abortion get the
1:03 government out of there education ain't
1:05 nobody need the government for that so
1:06 when it comes to economic issues
1:08 libertarians lean more conservative and
1:10 in general with social issues especially
1:12 regarding privacy libertarians lean more
1:14 liberal okay let's move on to liberal
1:16 ideology and social issues liberals tend
1:17 to think that personal privacy which is
1:19 to say areas of behavior that should be
1:21 excluded from government involvement is
1:22 pretty broad so abortion for example is
1:25 a private decision and should not be
1:26 regulated by the government so is the
1:28 gender of the person you want to marry
1:29 like if you're a man you want to marry
1:30 another man the government needs to stay
1:32 out of it legalize marijuana no problem
1:34 leave it to the individuals to decide
1:35 that might be a little confusing because
1:37 if you've been watching my other videos
1:38 on political ideology the constant theme
1:41 has been that liberals favor government
1:43 involvement they want the government to
1:44 get involved with poverty they want the
1:45 government to get involved in education
1:47 they want the government to get involved
1:49 in regulating businesses but on many
1:51 social issues liberals want the
1:53 government out now with conservative
1:55 ideology there is a similar conundrum
1:57 conservatives want less government
1:58 involvement on some social issues but
2:00 more in others conservatives believe
2:02 that abortion is not a private matter
2:04 but should be regulated by the
2:05 government conservatives believe that
2:07 the government should mandate that
2:08 marriage is an arrangement between one
2:10 man and one woman but when it comes to
2:12 something like gun ownership
2:13 conservatives want the government out of
2:15 that decision when it comes to education
2:16 conservatives want to make their own
2:17 decisions about how and where to educate
2:20 their children with respect to religious
2:21 beliefs conservatives want as little
2:23 government intervention as possible so
2:25 the point is with liberals and
2:26 conservatives they favor government
2:28 intervention in some social issues and
2:30 reject it in others and like i said
2:31 there isn't an easy way to categorize
2:33 them neatly but just for poops and
2:35 giggles let's have a look at three
2:36 non-required supreme court cases that
2:38 illustrate this tension the first is
2:40 planned parenthood v casey in 1992 and
2:42 this was a case that considered the
2:43 abortion ruling handed down in roe v
2:45 wade in the 1980s a pennsylvania law
2:47 added some significant restrictions to
2:49 abortions like they mandated that any
2:50 woman seeking an abortion had to wait
2:52 for 24 hours before the procedure or if
2:54 she was a minor she had to have the
2:55 consent of at least one parent or if she
2:57 was married she had to have the consent
2:59 of her husband now to liberals for whom
3:00 roe v wade was a triumph for women's
3:02 rights these strictures were
3:03 unconscionable to conservatives these
3:05 restrictions were moving in the right
3:06 direction to reduce the number of
3:08 abortions performed so with respect to
3:09 government involvement liberals were
3:11 like no and conservatives were like oh
3:13 heck yes well the court ended up
3:14 upholding roe v wade but simultaneously
3:17 upholding almost all of pennsylvania's
3:19 restrictions so i reckon you can say
3:20 that there was a victory and a loss for
3:22 both ideologies another case
3:23 illustrating the tension between
3:24 conservative and liberal ideology in
3:26 terms of social issues was zellman v
3:28 simmons-harris in 2002 which was about
3:30 education in this case students in
3:32 underperforming schools in cleveland
3:33 ohio were offered vouchers to attend
3:35 whatever school they wanted as it turns
3:37 out a giant portion of them used those
3:39 vouchers to attend religious schools
3:40 liberals saw this as a violation of the
3:42 first amendment's establishment clause
3:44 like they argued that the government
3:45 should be involved in education but not
3:47 in paying for religious education
3:49 conservatives saw this move as upholding
3:51 freedom of choice regarding education
3:53 well this one was a win for the
3:54 conservatives the court decided that
3:56 since parents were sending their
3:57 children to religious schools by choice
3:59 and not because they were mandated to
4:01 that such a system did not violate the
4:02 establishment clause and the final case
4:04 illustrating this tension was obergefell
4:06 v hodges in 2015 which addressed the
4:08 right of gay couples to marry
4:10 conservatives believe that marriage and
4:11 family is one of the chief cornerstones
4:13 of society and thus the government
4:15 should prevent non-traditional marriages
4:17 between people of the same sex liberals
4:19 believe that the government should have
4:20 no say in who a person marries even if
4:22 it's between two people of the same sex
4:24 well in this case the court handed down
4:25 a decision on the liberal side which
4:27 made same-sex marriage legal in all 50
4:29 states okay thanks for watching click
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