kingfollett
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- 25 Maj 2026
My explanation is the U.S. is a two party country, and the winner takes all. Each party if made up of a myriad of different factions, and individual voters will all have their preferences as to what issues are most important. Each party, organically or inorganically, will try and cobble together the largest percentage it can without blowing itself up with infighting and conflict.Off topic, but this always mildly puzzles me about US politics.
Obviously these days Republicans are seen as right leaning and Democrats as left leaning.
But at some point before, the Democrats were considerably more right wing as in they supported a feudal mechanism as a backbone of the economy, and Republicans sought a more egalitarian equality based approach.
I know at its core, American capitalism isn’t strictly right wing in that its key philosophy is that free markets should allow anyone the opportunity to become as wealthy as they want.
In many ways it is the most meritocratic approach, as it doesn’t have a firm ingrained support for inherited wealth and status.
So when did this switch happen? As in when did the politicians who sought to support the common man and increase of governmental power become the democrats and what lead to this?
Sometimes a party cannot keep everyone happy, so a group splinters off if the other party is perceived to offer them better outcomes. A good example is blue collar union types, who traditionally were always Democrat, but Trump particularly made lots of progress courting them with his MAGA framework.