The_Doctor
SilentCal1924
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« on: February 26, 2017, 02:56:37 PM » |
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Will we ever see the two parties trade platforms completely or will there be a rough line between the Republicans of 1860 and 2020 and Democrats of 1828 and 2020 (assuming we assume that the GOP is the 'pro-business' coalition while the Democrats are the 'people's party.')
I would note that the Republicans date from Alexander Hamilton's Federalist pro-business industrial philosophy which lost out to Jefferson's agrarian philosophy (only by virtue of being 60 years too early) and the Whig forerunners (Henry Clay, notably). The Democrats take their populism from Andrew Jackson's frontiersman ideology that in turn borrowed much from Jefferson's agrarian ideology.
It would be interesting to imagine what the political GOP and DNC will look like, if they're still around, in 2100.
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