So the two main parties in America, the republicans and democrats. Is it true there was a time when both parties weren't so different?
I'm from Ireland btw.
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There was a time when they were no parties at all actually. Or if you prefer just one big party.
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
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Not totally true. True that George Washington eschewed political parties and, much like Lincoln later, tried to include rivals and those from political parties in his administration. But his VP, Adams, was a member of the Federalist party, and Washington was very supportive of his Treasury Secretary Hamilton's Federalist economic policies, to the point of joining Hamilton in putting on their old generals' uniforms to lead Federal troops in quashing the Whiskey Rebellion against the Federalist centralized "big government". His Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, despite saying political parties were a necessary evil, became the face of the Democratic-Republican Party in opposition to those positions.
There was a time when they were no parties at all actually. Or if you prefer just one big party.
Not totally true. True that George Washington eschewed political parties and, much like Lincoln later, tried to include rivals and those from political parties in his administration. But his VP, Adams, was a member of the Federalist party, and Washington was very supportive of his Treasury Secretary Hamilton's Federalist economic policies, to the point of joining Hamilton in putting on their old generals' uniforms to lead Federal troops in quashing the Whiskey Rebellion against the Federalist centralized "big government". His Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, despite saying political parties were a necessary evil, became the face of the Democratic-Republican Party in opposition to those positions.