"The Roots of America's Political Parties"

by Ryan Burgett.

I rarely turn on the radio nowadays, but when I do I am almost always disappointed in what I hear. The top political commentators often have a good grasp on current politics, but when it comes to history, they can not see back beyond their own birth date. I have heard time and time again, "We must bring the party back to its roots!" But do they realize what those roots are? Do they realize where the parties came from? If they learned the truth, they would realize the ignorance of what they have been saying. So where do our modern political parties come from?

While the ideologies of each party can be traced back further, I am going to begin at the founding of the United States. . .

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