Democrats tend to put a lot of money into social programs while Republicans tend to spend on national defense. (A broad overview, but that's the basic gist of it.) And Republicans like to tout the belief that they're better with money, but if you actually look at the numbers, the years that we've had a Republican or mainly right-leaning office have also created times of greatest national debt. 8| (Yeeeah, from my understanding, American liberals are more conservative than British or European liberals, if that makes sense. America as a whole is more right-leaning than most people realize.)