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The Party of the People

Myth and sophistry combine to form what most people believe to be the history of the Democrat Party. The truth of the history of the Democrat Party is much more disquieting than most people realize. Since the days of Aaron Burr, the third sitting vice president of the United States, who shot and delivered what proved to be a fatal wound in a duel with one of the Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, the Democratic Party has been at odds with American Ideals and Ideas. With a history that includes murder, treason, slavery, segregation, sedition, bribery, and systemic vote theft, it can be argued that the Democrats are, at root, a party more interested in obtaining and retaining power than doing what is best for America. And their words and deeds in the 21st century are a continuation of their true disquieting history.

The “Party of the People” has always been the “Party for Themselves”, and anybody that opposes them has been harshly treated by them. They have a willingness to take on any political or social cause that advances their power, even when the causes have been antithetical to our American Ideals and Ideas. They have always divided Americans into interest groups and cobbled together these interest groups for electoral purposes (i.e., now known as Identity Politics) and to pit one group of Americans against another group of Americans. They also have been known to switch allegiances if a group of Americans no longer serves their electoral purposes.

At the founding of America, when America was mostly agrarian, they pitted the agrarians against business and trade interests. In the antebellum period, they supported the slave interests, and during the Civil War, most of the Confederates and their sympathizers were Democrats. In the reconstruction and post-reconstruction eras, they were the party of bigotry, discrimination, and Jim Crow laws against black people. In the Industrial Revolution era, they opposed manufacturers and financial interests and supported socialistic objectives for American businesses, governance, and society. During the 1930s depression period, they implemented many policies and government actions that now many economists believe prolonged the depression and which only had the appearance of helping those Americans impacted by the depression. The Democrats were the primary supporters of World War I and World War II but as my Book It selections of “10/01/24 War and Presidential Leadership” illuminate, they engaged in political tactics during these wars that were deleterious to our American Ideals and Ideas. During the Cold War period, they often were sympathetic to Communists’ socialistic ideals and non-critical of Communists' aggressions, oppressions, and economics (indeed, they often made excuses for the Communist's actions). In the Civil Rights era, they initially opposed Civil Rights legislation and only began to support civil rights when they determined that they could use it for electoral advantage. In the latter part of the 20th century, they became the party of taxing and spending, as well as big government and excessive regulations that intruded into the everyday life of Americans. In the 21st century, they have been taken over by the leftist elements of their party. This has led them down the path of Political Correctness, Virtue Signaling, Cancel Culture, Doxing, Wokeness, and the Greater Good versus the Common Good, and lately, "Lawfare" and "The Weaponization of Government". This modern trend has exposed their anti-American sentiments, and anti-American ideals and ideas have become open and prominent among their Progressives supporters and amongst Democratic Party leaders. Throughout its history, the Democrat Party has been known for gerrymandering, vote fraud, voter intimidation, iron-fisted machine politics, and the (tacit) support of violence to achieve its political goals and policy agendas.

Throughout their history, the Democrats have paid lip service to fidelity to the Constitution, but their words and deeds demonstrate that they do not share the American Ideals and Ideas of our Founding Fathers. They have consistently tried to reinterpret the Constitution (i.e., A Living Constitution) to fit their own ideals and ideas, as I have discussed in my Article "A Republican Constitution or a Democratic Constitution". They also resort to calls for “Our Democracy” when we actually live under a “Democratic republic”, as I have Chirped on "09/28/24 The Assaults on the Constitution". Their anti-America sentiments and lack of fidelity to the Constitution is a violation of their Oath of Office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, which should disqualify them from holding any office of trust in America. Their words and deeds have also led most Americans to view the Democrat Party as a party of madness and domestic terrorism, as I have examined in my Chirp on “04/06/25 It’s Not the Message—It’s the Madness”.

This is not to say that they achieved no good for America and Americans. They were at the forefront of worker labor regulations, as well as workplace safety and health. They also supported Child Labor Laws and women’s Suffrage, along with other social changes for the betterment of American society. But all of their good has come at a cost—the rise of big government and the diminishment of the Liberties and Freedoms of Americans to their political goals and policy agendas.

Alas, the Democrat Party is not a party of the individual person but the party of mobs. Throughout history, mobs have been proven to be dangerous to an individuals’ "Natural, Constitutional, and Civil Rights" as well as to an individuals’ "Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All".