0:00 hey everybody welcome back today we're
0:01 diving to the heart of American
0:03 attitudes about government and politics
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0:06 it's kind of a
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0:10 tradition to kick off unit 4 let's talk
0:13 about different interpretations of some
0:15 core values it's a mix of shared
0:17 Traditions Customs beliefs and values
0:20 that provide some common ground for most
0:22 Americans we focus so much on ways that
0:24 Americans disagree with each other so
0:26 let's take this rare opportunity to
0:28 highlight some of the things that most
0:29 people people agree about including a
0:31 couple of ideals way back from the first
0:34 video of unit one first up is rule of
0:36 law the idea that no one no matter how
0:38 rich or how powerful should be above the
0:40 law it's the great equalizer so whether
0:43 you're a CEO or a person just struggling
0:45 to pay the rent the president or a high
0:47 school student everyone should be on the
0:49 same playing field when it comes to the
0:50 law the basic fairness of everybody
0:52 being equal before the law is something
0:54 that almost everybody believes in it's
0:56 like the Bedrock of justice that we all
0:58 stand on but let's be real I said should
1:02 be not is this can be one of those
1:04 frustrating ideals where everybody
1:06 agrees and yet we still fall short of
1:09 actually pulling it off next limited
1:11 government the Constitution established
1:13 a limited government that would only
1:15 have the power to do some things not
1:18 everything here's the thing basically
1:20 everybody regardless of their political
1:22 ideology believes the government
1:24 shouldn't be absolute or all powerful
1:26 like hey let's not give the government
1:28 unchecked Authority government is about
1:30 setting boundaries making sure that the
1:32 people in the federal government know
1:34 that their power has limits and that
1:36 sounds great until you remember that
1:37 there are huge disagreements over how
1:39 much power the Constitution delegated to
1:41 the federal government and how much it
1:43 reserved to the states and to the people
1:45 but so it goes as we shift to the next
1:48 Trio of values individualism equality of
1:50 opportunity and free enterprise the
1:53 agreement isn't quite as universal while
1:55 people largely agree on the broad
1:57 Strokes the detail Sparks debate first
2:00 is individualism think of this as the I
2:03 do my thing you do yours philosophy it
2:05 means that each person is responsible
2:07 for themselves you have the freedom to
2:09 make your own decisions and you have to
2:11 live with the consequences good or bad
2:13 however the way that people interpret
2:15 individualism certainly varies some see
2:17 it as complete self-reliance While
2:20 others argue that it still includes
2:21 plenty of shared responsibility towards
2:23 our fellow citizens next equality of
2:26 opportunity is the belief that everybody
2:28 should have an equal chance to compete
2:30 and succeed this can be described as
2:32 equality of opportunity but not equality
2:35 of result yet the debate is over what
2:38 exactly is included in the notion of
2:40 equal opportunity some argue that it's
2:42 about making sure everybody has the same
2:44 opportunities open to them While others
2:46 think that it requires government
2:48 actions to actively help some people
2:50 like in the debate over affirmative
2:52 action back in unit 3 lastly let's talk
2:54 about the US economic system which is
2:56 built on the principles of free
2:58 enterprise people have have the freedom
3:00 to choose what to buy and sell what
3:02 career to pursue now if I stopped right
3:05 there very few people would likely OB to
3:08 that you get to choose what to do with
3:10 your time effort and money and so does
3:13 everybody else but just how free should
3:16 our markets be how much regulation is
3:18 needed and even if markets aren't
3:20 perfect are we sure that government
3:21 action can improve outcomes or might it
3:24 make them worse while some argue for a
3:26 hands-off approach and putting the free
3:28 back in free entprise others believe in
3:31 a more active role for government and
3:33 Regulators so these core values provide
3:35 a foundation for how we view our
3:37 government and society and thinking
3:39 about them in this context might help
3:41 make some sense of some of the
3:42 disagreements we see in politics today
3:45 keep in mind that by and large people
3:46 want similar things people want to be
3:49 free to mostly do what they want for
3:51 people to be safe and for people to be
3:53 able to take care of themselves but
3:55 disagreement is more often the means
3:58 than the ends later in the we're going
4:00 to discuss political ideology and we'll
4:02 revisit how these core values affect the
4:04 worldview of conservatives liberals and
4:07 Libertarians all right well that's it
4:09 for this one until next time this has
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