Why is the Libertarian Party insignificant in American politics?
If libertarian is defined as economically conservative and socially liberal, than libertarianism could go a long way. Libertarians could win off a legalize marijuana and lower taxes ticket.The problem is that the libertarian brand is not merely economically conservative and socially tolerant, it is to be really economically conservative and socially tolerant. Libertarians don't want to just legalize marijuana, they want to legalize all drugs. Libertarians don't want to just lower taxes (or keep them low), they want to abolish the statist tax system. Libertarians don't want to just allow more immigrants, they want open boarders. Libertarians don't want to just end affirmative action, they want to eliminate the Civil Rights Act. Libertarians don't want to just avoid a social security budget disaster, they want to end social security. Libertarians don't want to keep from raising minimum wage, they want to end government welfare.I'm a libertarian, and not a moderate one. I think a lot of these are really good ideas, but they're not popular and they don't sell. Extremism never sells very well to the public broadly.Another reason would be that people just don't like libertarians as a group. It has nothing to do with policy, it has nothing to do with ideas, or costs or benefits or morality. Political scientists have long believed that to a large extent people choose their politics based on which group they want to be associated with. There is a social aspect to it, and a personal identity aspect to it. People ask themselves, "do I consider myself a libertarian person?" and "do I want people to see me as a libertarian person?" The answer is no because libertarians are associated with negative qualities like argumentativeness, racism, and radicalness. Some are more true than others, but its not about what libertarians actually are when you think about it. Our subconscious minds make associations before we've even consciously considered them. Libertarians have bad ones.If you want to do something for libertarianism, don't try to find better arguments. Try to be the kind of person people want to be associated with. Try to make libertarianism into the kind of group people want to be associated with. Believing true things has nothing to do with anything.
Which newspapers support which political party in India?
Here is the List-THE HINDU - INDEPENDENT & BEST (Doesn't need anyone's certificate , ask any UPSC candidates.)INDIAN EXPRESS - INDEPENDENT + VERY LITTLE PRO Congress + SECOND BEST. THE TELEGRAPH - Biased , left leaning but only paper that have guts to take on MODI with their creative front page that often trends on twitter .Times of India - Pro BJP , but by breaking some news it tries hard to prove that they are independent.PATRIKA - Only Hindi NEWS Paper to which we can say a little independent , but it is CONGRESS LEANING.Dainik Bhaskar - Same as TOI ,Pro BJP , but by breaking some news it tries hard to prove that they are independent.Dainik Jagran /NaiDunia -Pro BJP , but by some news it tries to prove that they are independent.Haribhoomi - It is equivalent to ZEE News , puppet of BJP.Hindustan - INDEPENDENT +LITTLE PRO Congress.NAVBHARAT - Pro BJP and Congress , false news on front page that Gopal Subharyam commission had given clean chit to jaitely , while it hadn't start working that day. Punjab Kesari - haven't read so much but looks quite independent.I have mentioned that I read , please write in comments with explanation if you want to add or edit anything.
Among large UK Newspapers, which are considered conservative and which are considered liberal?
The spectrum in the UK isn't so much liberal conservative but rather left right.For the broadsheets, starting with the left:The Independent: nominally independent and centrist but I would put on the left these days. Shrill, especially with regards to foreign policy. Not my cup of teaThe Guardian: Centre-left. Pretty pro New Labour. Middle class. Commentators like Polly Toynbee and Owen Jones amongst the biggest name leftists in Britain (how depressing)(Mythical centre ground)The Financial Times: doesn't really have a slant, just business conservatism I guess. Probably the best British paper.The Times: has gone a lot more right wing recently. But still a quality paper. Owned by Murdoch.The Telegraph: house journal of the Conservative Party. Has become a bit of a caricature of itself in recent years. Owned by the Barclay Bros.Moving onto the tabloids, starting with the left:Daily Mirror: Labour supporting Tabloid. Traditional populist left fare. Dull.The i Paper: brief version of the independent. Not too bad if you don't want too much depth(Mythical centre ground)The Sun: Populist right wing. Working class paper. Entertaining. But immigrant-baiting, routinely lies and misrepresents. Biggest selling paper in Britain. Owned by Murdoch.The Daily Mail: Middle class populist right wing. Shrill. Peddles rubbish. Basically it's for those who are too snobbish to read The Sun and too thick to read The Times.The Daily Express: The Daily Mail but for almost exclusively pensioners. Obsessed with the weather, pensions and Princess Diana. Owned by porn baron Richard "Dirty" Desmond.The right wing tabloids are all similarly right-wing, just in different ways.The other papers (Daily Star etc) are just full of showbiz crap and breasts. Not really newspapers.
Is the Financial Times newspaper biased in favour of the UK Conservative party?
Ever so slightly. And it's not really a bad sort of bias. The FT is biased in favour of the establishment, and what it takes to be economic competence. Currently, this equates to being pro-Tory. But it needn't be thus. Aspects of Blairism fit into the FT nook, too. Corbyn’s politics are anti-establishment, and some of them are quite divorced from economic orthodoxy. Does that make them bad policies? Well, that's a matter of opinion.The FT is a quality paper. If you read it (and nothing else), you would come away very well informed. I wouldn't describe it as “biased”, which seems to me to have a normative component (i.e. It's bad to be biased). Rather, I'd say that it has a perspective.
Which political parties aren't getting enough attention?
The Libertarian Party is the third largest political party in the U.S. It's been around for 45 years and is organized in all 50 states. In a typical election cycle it runs enough candidates at the federal level to take control of the legislative branch if all of them were elected. Likewise its presidential candidates are always on the ballot in enough states to win in the Electoral College. There are as many people in the U.S. who align with the politics of the Libertarian Party as there are who align with the politics of the Democratic or Republican parties. In spite of all this, many Americans have never even heard of the Libertarian Party. And many who have aren't aware that it regularly has candidates on the ballot alongside the Ds and Rs. That's because Libertarian candidates are almost never included in debates (by mutual agreement of the two major-party candidates), and their campaigns are rarely covered, or even mentioned, by the news media. Libertarian candidates don't score high in pre-election polls because their names typically aren't included in the polls, and the low poll numbers are then used to justify their exclusion from debates and news coverage.