by Andrew Cline

Created on: August 13, 2008

The following is a list of political terms, political organizations, and their definitions.

UN: An organization founded upon the principle that the Soviet Union under Stalin would work hand in hand with the US, UK, France, and China(RC) in order to maintain peace and stability throughout the World. This logic later evolved into the logic that China(PRC), Russia, France, the US, and the UK would work together to maintain peace and stability in the World. There's also a General Assembly, which affords less influential countries to pass resolutions that amount to international finger waving.

NAFTA: A free trade agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada based upon the notion that Hong Kong is an economic fluke and that prosperous free trade requires thousands of pages of minutiae, exemptions, and back-room deals in order to succeed.

EU: Originally a free trade organization along the lines of NAFTA, the EU has evolved into an engine of political integration based upon economic incentives (see bribes), and passing laws requiring set amounts of cocoa content for chocolate

Conservative: A conservative is someone who wants to maintain the status quo, or one who wants to return to a more traditional status quo and who believes that 'Leave it to Beaver' was a reality show.

Bribery: The private sector equivalent of economic incentives and foreign aid.

Moderate: Moderates are unique within the political orientation spectrum as their beliefs seem to be based largely upon lack of a consistent political ideology or logical framework. The lack of a consistent political framework. Moderates like to think of themselves as pragmatists rather than ideologues, basing decisions upon whether something works rather than whether it fits within an ideological framework. Addressing how one determines whether an idea works and why the consistent application of one standard would not be preferable to the hodge podge approach are not important issues of debate in the moderate world. Moderates can often be spotted saying 'on the other hand' while engaged in political discourse.

Liberals: Liberals believe in live and let live, unless of course you're not living up to their ideal; in which case the let live changes to 'let you live.' Originally the term was used for one who believed in minimalist government intervention, free trade, the protection of civil liberties, and the expansion of the electorate. This is why a man such as FDR who engaged in massive government intervention, pushed

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