America's Five Political Eras: What America Has Been Actually Fighting About Throughout the Republic

What have the great battles between America’s political parties throughout our republic’s history actually been about? America has had five distinct “party systems” across American history. Each engaged in a unique ideological debate devoted to resolving the greatest issue of that historical moment. Resolving these great historic ideological debates is what American political party systems are actually all about

In this episode, we walk through each of the five great ideological debates of American political history. The First Party System debate between the Federalists and Whigs over what the institutions of the new republic actually meant. The Second Party System debate between the Democrats and the Whigs over how to bring the people into the government as the republic expanded into the frontier. The Third Party System debate between the Republicans and Democrats over the Civil War and Reconstruction. The Fourth Party System Populist and Progressive Era debate over industrialization. And now our own political era’s Fifth Party System New Deal debate over how to adapt our republic to modernity.

Our political debate between conservatism and liberalism is just one of many ideological debates over a unique moment in American history. When our debate is finally resolved, and when the problems of a new era emerge, it too will also decline and fall, just as American great debates always do. Given everything we know, that time is coming sooner than we think.

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Видео America's Five Political Eras: What America Has Been Actually Fighting About Throughout the Republic канала Frank DiStefano