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tpfkaw
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« on: September 05, 2011, 05:31:52 PM »

You can't label such a large group of people as having the same ideology. And you can't compare their belief systems with ours; I mean, hell, 1776 was before the invention of the terms left and right. If we have to judge, Jefferson's Democratic-Republicanas would generally be considered left-wing, and Hamilton's Federalists would generally be considered right-wing. But things have changed so much.

I think if we have to judge, Hamilton was to the left of Jefferson.

If you asked Hamilton, he'd insist that Jefferson was a dangerous radical beholden to the riff-raff and the common folk, unlike he, Hamilton, who knew to guard the prosperity of America by keeping it in the hands of those who could use it properly.

Politics was a lot more honest back then.
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