Ashr on Nostr: American politics starts to makes more sense when you learn that modern Democrats ...

American politics starts to makes more sense when you learn that modern Democrats were called Federalists and modern Republicans were formerly the Democratic Republicans.
Federalist = big government more taxes
Dem. Republican = small fed. government more emphasis on states rights, anti national banks.

This begs the question why do they teach Americans we are a constitutional Republic when in fact we are a federation.