“Liberalism vs. Inegalitarian Traditions in American Political Culture, With Regards to Racial and Ethnic Minorities” American political culture is wrought with conflict over the competing traditions of liberalism and it’s contradictory inegalitarian ideologies. Liberalism holds most of our political ideals, such as freedom, equality, and individualism, but these ideals often clash with the inegalitarian practices that remain from our troubled political past, for example sexism, racism, homophobia, and classism. Nowhere is this conflict more …showed first 75 words of 2542 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2542 total…shadowy side of a hegemonic liberal republicanism.” Our political culture is made up neither completely with our democratic and liberal ideals, nor with inegalitarian traditions and practices. Instead, because of the conflict over competing traditions of liberalism and it’s contradictory inegalitarian ideologies, it must be seen as a one filled with “multiple-traditions,” one in which these opposing forces have intertwined in intricate patterns “of apparently inconsistent combinations of the traditions, accompanied by recurring conflicts” (558).