The Democratic Party stands for improving education, lowering taxes for working families, affordable health care, reducing crime, preserving the environment and protecting a woman's right to choose. This party believes the role of government should be to protect citizens' rights, provide education for all citizens, maintain order and provide economic stability. This party believes government should be made responsible through individual participation at the community level through a multi-party, proportional representation system. End the death penalty. Support a living wage and the rights of all workers to organize.
Libertarians think governments usually make the wrong decisions.
This party believes governments should only protect the rights of the individual from violence, the threat of violence, fraud and nothing else. The Natural Law party stands for government that prevents problems before they start, politics free from conflict, and proven solutions to bring individuals and the nation in line with natural law. This party believes government should be in tune with natural law, so it can work with nature's efficiency, and citizens can be truly self-governing. The Peace and Freedom Party has a vision that someday people will make decisions that affect their own lives and will democratically decide with others on matters of collective concern. This party believes that government has a responsibility to provide for the general welfare so that everyone has jobs, housing, education, health care and equal rights.