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Question

What are some differences between the Republican Parties and the democratic Parties

Answer 1

In broad terms:

The Democratic Party believes the people are best served by a Federal government that pools resources to provide a variety of social services, such as universal health care, job training, welfare, and affirmative action to level the playing field and provide a basic level of security to all. They also believe people should be allowed a great breadth of social freedoms, such as g*y marriage, and some in the liberal wing support legalization of certain recreational drugs, not just tobacco and alcohol.

The Republican Party believes the people are best served by a Federal government that lets people keep most of their own wealth and invest it as they see fit. "Leveling the playing field" is seen as government interference benefiting the less capable. They also believe people should be restricted from certain social freedoms, like g*y marriage and illicit drug use, because these undermine the basic social fabric.

The Libertarian party essentially takes the "social liberties" ideal of the Democrats and the "low taxes" approach of the Republicans, i.e. government should only provide basic protections, like law enforcement and military forces, and leave the rest to individual choice, which is better served by people who aren't taxed so much, so they have more of their own money to spend, and the marketplace will manage itself, essentially.

Certain issues, like abortion, are mixed in all three parties; though the majority of pro-life advocates are Republican, the majority of Republicans are actually pro-choice, i.e., pro-life conservatives do not make up the majority of the Republican Party, though they are a very vocal and influential minority.

Note that these perspectives are modern-age only; FDR (Dem) developed various gov't programs to get the country working again during the Depression of the 1930s, but that aside, until the 1960s, both parties were "conservative" by modern standards, i.e. neither supported "g*y rights" or even civil rights. Indeed, it was the federal government's enforcement of civil rights in the South, during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, that turned the South from Dem to GOP territory, which has remained true through today.