id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9655 Political ideologies in the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 5690 597 57 Liberals and progressives traditionally advocate strong civil liberties, social progressivism, cultural pluralism and a mixed economy featuring more government intervention in the economy and social life (such as education and health care) than supported by most other Americans.[9] Conservatives commonly defend the notional status quo of some point in the past, believing that the United States has deviated significantly from it and advocating more traditional stands on social issues, protection of gun rights and less government intervention in the economy.[6] Libertarians, or classical liberals, tend to support strong civil liberties, peace, more freedom of choice including economic freedom and are skeptical of government's ability to solve problems.[10] In the United States, modern conservatism coalesced in the latter half of the 20th century, responding over time to the political and social change associated with events such as the Great Depression, tension with the Soviet Union in the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the counterculture of the 1960s, the deregulation of the economy in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the overthrow of the New Deal coalition in the 1980s and the terrorist threat of the 21st century. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9655.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9655.txt