If the Founding Fathers were alive today, what party would most they be members of?

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Fiddytree said:

A youtube video about Davy Crockett. Come on, man.

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You are missing the point of it. Back then, taxes were pretty much non-existant. And "Government Handouts" were also non-existant. I think the Founding Fathers would reject both parties, and demand that things go back to how it was when they created the system. No welfare, no large taxation, no foreign aid, no standing Army or Navy, a giant closed society, let everybody else go to hell.

Think of a Republic, very much like North Korea.

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Oozlefinch said:

You are missing the point of it. Back then, taxes were pretty much non-existant. And "Government Handouts" were also non-existant. I think the Founding Fathers would reject both parties, and demand that things go back to how it was when they created the system. No welfare, no large taxation, no foreign aid, no standing Army or Navy, a giant closed society, let everybody else go to hell.

Think of a Republic, very much like North Korea.

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I have no idea where you are getting these notions, aside from popular imagination.

The largest branch of the Federalist party wanted a standing army. Many had no problem with large taxation (aside from the obvious political battles that lay ahead), they hadn't yet conceived of the welfare state (making that an exercise of complications, but a worthwhile one), many wanted federal aide in one form or another for either the French or the British, many didn't want a "giant closed society."

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ReformCollege said:

I think we easily established that they would be libertarians.

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I doubt it.

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molten_dragon said:

I doubt it.

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I think a few of them might have been. Sam Adams and Thomas Jefferson for example.

But most would likely have been Republicans or Democrats. The splits were already there, more then evident simply by looking at the debates over the Constitution, and the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. Those two groups were the foundations of our modern political parties.

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Oozlefinch said:

I think a few of them might have been. Sam Adams and Thomas Jefferson for example.

But most would likely have been Republicans or Democrats. The splits were already there, more then evident simply by looking at the debates over the Constitution, and the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. Those two groups were the foundations of our modern political parties.

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Maybe after awhile if they had had a few years to study up on things and get used to the way things were in the country now.

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The Classical Daddies would be members of the American Revolutionary Party.

If it didn't exist, they'd form one.

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Fiddytree said:

Considering the reaction libertarians had against George W. Bush's War on Terrorism and his reach of power, along with a whole host of other problems, I would rethink that assessment.

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Ideologically speaking.

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They'd fall largely within the Republicans and Democrats, with perhaps a few going full ideological and going a 3rd party.

Anyone naively suggesting that the Founding Fathers, as some monolithic entity, would largely comprise of only one party or the other is doing nothing but fooling themselves to feed their own political ego imho. Contrary to what some people romanticize, not all the Founding Fathers agreed completely with each other on the role of government and the methods the country should move forward. They would split amongst multiple parties and likely have issues with many of them as well.