How much do you exactly know about the two parties in the United States political system? How about the fact that it used to be that the Democrats and the Republicans were complete opposites of beliefs and values and that would be reflected on their voting? If you do not know much about the political system, check out this cool video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pr-o_UsC2w 
Let's start with the Democratic party. The Democratic party actually used to be the complete opposite of what it is today. From the start of the United States to about the end of the 19th century, the Democratic party was mostly in the South with the demographic of White plantation owners. After, the civil war when African Americans were given the right to vote, a lot of them started voting Republican and slowly the candidate/ parties started switching platforms to appeal to the demographics that were represented in their district, leading to the national level when it came to Presidential elections. The democratic party biggest thing on their platform is the redistribution of wealth and social equality. Their platform also, consists of government control, health car, poverty, economics, rights for LGBTQ community, "pro-choice" on abortion and the environment.
Now onto the Republican party also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP). The republican parties ideology is based off of Alexander Hamilton's ideology on economic and military affairs. The republican party main topics are social hierarchy, and natural rights. The other major topics on their platform are individual freedom, private property, the right to bear arms, small government, free market. Their beliefs are very Christian like because most of the GOP is in the South and in the South there is not much of a separation from church and state. They are "pro-life" because to them killing a fetus is murder.
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This is what the old spectrum used to look like with the independents going back and forth between the each election based solely on the candidates platform. Nowadays though, this spectrum is completely different because on the left side you have communists, socialists and democrats; on the right side you have republicans, conservatives, and libertarians. Let's start with the Democratic party. The Democratic party actually used to be the complete opposite of what it is today. From the start of the United States to about the end of the 19th century, the Democratic party was mostly in the South with the demographic of White plantation owners. After, the civil war when African Americans were given the right to vote, a lot of them started voting Republican and slowly the candidate/ parties started switching platforms to appeal to the demographics that were represented in their district, leading to the national level when it came to Presidential elections. The democratic party biggest thing on their platform is the redistribution of wealth and social equality. Their platform also, consists of government control, health car, poverty, economics, rights for LGBTQ community, "pro-choice" on abortion and the environment.
Now onto the Republican party also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP). The republican parties ideology is based off of Alexander Hamilton's ideology on economic and military affairs. The republican party main topics are social hierarchy, and natural rights. The other major topics on their platform are individual freedom, private property, the right to bear arms, small government, free market. Their beliefs are very Christian like because most of the GOP is in the South and in the South there is not much of a separation from church and state. They are "pro-life" because to them killing a fetus is murder.
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