The History of American Politics Explained

What is America's ideology? Some might argue that in the United States there is no left-wing, and that America has two right-wing parties, they might ask how left is the American left, or claim that America was founded on libertarianism or liberalism, or that both parties have always been the same. The history of American ideology is complex, and the two party system does a disservice of representing the broad political spectrum of U.S ideology both historically and in the present day, so today we'll explain what exactly is America's ideology, and what political ideologies have been dominant across American history. This is the history of the American political spectrum explained.

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[Fredreegz]

It's almost as if 'left' and 'right' were just used to designate republicans from monarchists during the French Revolution, and as a binary completely fails to encompass the complexities of contemporary politics.

[MLR]

Can we get a good image of the "Family Tree of American Ideology" somewhere?

[NikasInParis_]

Euros cannot gaslight me by saying "Democrats are actually right wing" no.

[RealMajora]

I've been looking at the evolution in Canadian ideology recently.
It's been interesting to see the influence of Britain and America on the history, and also the contrast of a unique Canadian ideology that persists.
Canadian conservatism is directly descendant from British High Toryism than anything from America, which is why the modern Conservative party seems to differ greatly from the modern Republicans stateside who have their own history as illustrated in your video. Good stuff.

[FedericoMalagutti]

From an European POV: US politics has two parties which are both Liberal and Capitalist. There’s maybe a 2-3% of difference in dealing with important internal affairs such as Privatization vs State in regards of Healthcare, Public transportation, Energy and so on. There’s bo option for a variation on the economic model, also the foreign politics varies in a marginal way, while a little bit more relevant than others.
To me, as a European, US politics seems more concerned to make people discuss about what a woman is and if God exists or not, rather than anything else.

[louismiller]

I'm not sure we can say that the founding fathers were largely authoritarian. There's a solid divide between Federalists and Anti-Federalists and there were a good mix of both or neither.

[joanchalevinuesa]

Best 10 minuts and 58 seconds spended ever👍👍

[anthonytippett]

Calling both right wing makes both mad
Liberals: stop calling me racist like that
Conservatives: how dare you compare those liberals to me, now I have to go further right.

[dcseain]

We need ranked choice voting to break the two-party system.

[julianbrabsche]

As European this video was very informative for me. So Europeans focus more on if a party is economically left or right wing. Americans focus more on if a party is socially right or left wing.
The Democrats are socially left wing and economically right wing which explains why Americans consider them left wing and Europeans consider them right wing. Another reason why many Americans see them as left wing could also be that the Democrats are still more left wing than Repulicans.

[dannydacheedo]

Z's audience is easily the most politically diverse group I've ever seen

[DeanMonsieur]

What if America had taken any of the other ideological routes? That would have been really interesting.

[loufancelli]

The American political system can be best be described as Cronyism. There is far too much governmental intervention to call us a true market based economy. Actual policy is driven mostly by an unelected bureaucracy rather than the elected congress members. That bureaucracy accounts for roughly 2% of the entire US workforce, with their payroll in the hundreds of billions or dollars - all of which come from taxes. So when non Americans hear American's complaining about taxes, you must understand that vast majority of what we pay in taxes does not actually go into programs that come back to our fellow citizens, it goes into the pockets of the bureaucracy, the cronies of both them and the elected officials, and oh yeah mostly to pay off debt that we have run up as we just continue to print fake dollars.

[leongremista]

Not only from a european perspective. I grew in brazil, a country whose educational system is plagued with old guard leftist hegemony (the guys who think scandinavia is a successful example of socialism and that the average soviet citizen really ate better than the averagr american), and this idea that both US parties are right wing is prevalent and was taught

[professormadlad]

With me I'm in favor of having a small well-regulated federal government having a large militia for National defense.

[danielsantiagourtado]

Love your content! Keep them coming z! 🔥🔥🔥💀💀

[night]

But the southern democrats were never conservative. They supported high taxes and regulations just at the state level

[jeremyhodge]

The problem is both leading parties are afraid of a third option 🤨

[gutetama]

One of the common misconceptions about American politics is that Republicans support deregulation or the free market. This frustrates me as a Right-Libertarian because A) Right-wing economics doesn't necessarily mean deregulation, and B) Both parties are crony capitalist and in the pockets of corporations, therefore neither would support the free market. And while you could make a case that Republicans favor less regulation, that isn't really true on the local and oftentimes state levels (except when it comes to some issues).

[kronosbot]

Local involvement is woefully lacking in many communities across our Union. And in many of our communities, the population's attention is turned away from their own local affairs towards issues far away in cities and States where we don't even know the names of the individual people who live there.

In such a politicized environment that crosses State borders continent-wide, it is small wonder indeed that even we as American citizens have such a poor understanding of the issues and their nuances. So much so that there are only two nominal parties at the federal level for dozens of States, each with many different regional cultures and populations that have many more differences that aren't adequately addressed at the local level all to maintain a ham-fisted attempt at propping up a "National" identity that never truly existed.

The United States of America is a Federation of sovereign States that have agreed to a joint experiment in governance at what is properly considered a supra-national level. And it is the deliberate twisting of words that manages to cajole much of our populations into thinking otherwise. Each colony, and each State that followed, was and still is a nation unto itself. With the populations of each united under a shared identity. With such a wide breadth of different peoples across the continent still committed even to this day to perpetuating the Union under a false pretext for so long, the cracks are only becoming more apparent in the thin veneer of the United States of America as a nation.

The histories of our own neighborhoods and communities are not being taught, with our 'nationalized' school system favoring a historical stance that instead teaches that it is the federal government that inherently wields power and authority. With so many politicians from 'foreign' States dictating how people hundreds of miles away in completely unknown circumstances should live to benefit far-away strangers rather than their own communities, it will only be a matter of time before the true state of affairs becomes known.

And the longer such circumstances are denied, the greater the upheaval will eventually be if local concerns are not favored at the local level and if federal representatives don't butt-out of other people's business.