BIG THANKS to Awilda Martinez who suggested this topic when we were polling for fan pick episodes! It's been a while since we've made a fan pick and they're always some of my favorite videos. Enjoy! ~Danielle
@SoniaSephia
3 жыл бұрын
I missed you're content! I'm glad you're back! I've learned soooo much from you're channel! And honestly you're videos have taught me to better explain some political and social beliefs I have!
@Caliblazeup
2 жыл бұрын
FACTS----->> WE AMERICANS NEEDS WAR ON OUR LAND TOO.
@BrodieLTW
3 жыл бұрын
Imagine going against this woman’s team on trivia night...
@pbsorigins
3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: In addition to Danielle's brilliance, Meredith Danko, our script editor, was the head writer for the Mental Floss YT channel for 6 years. The Origin content team would kill at trivia night! -Sheridan
@heatherswanson1664
3 жыл бұрын
@@pbsorigins isn't Meredith Danko also the writer for Crash Course history? She's amazing
@goddessnadiya
3 жыл бұрын
Goodness, I love this woman!
@Eyes-of-Horus
3 жыл бұрын
Why do they call them "parties" when they're no fun?
@desean3402
3 жыл бұрын
This channel needs way more views.
@Nekrochomikon8
3 жыл бұрын
I feel so bad that they make one great video after another, informative and well edited and they barely get any views...
@PowerPlayersMagazine
3 жыл бұрын
Share it to social media. That's what I have been doing every since I found this channel.
@darthbee18
3 жыл бұрын
Hey this is the topic I (also) asked about 😃 - thanks for taking it up Danielle and team! 🙌🙌🙌
@acehammer6284
3 жыл бұрын
its amazing how so many previous presidents and political figures from decades or even hundreds of years ago have warned against so many of the things that we are seeing happening today and in many cases have become the norm in American society, like how Eisenhower warned against the rise of the military industrial complex and the drafters of the constitution warned against the use of foreign aid to help a politician get elected, but those lessons have long since been forgotten
@amandaladouceur3011
3 жыл бұрын
So I have been reading about rank choice voting and I feel like that is a push to get rid of the two party favored system we have.
@1993greeksoldier
3 жыл бұрын
Honestly a change in voting system is the only hope I see for a change in that dynamic
@Bigchannel34
3 жыл бұрын
Which is why many people wanted Bernie. He would have been the first major shift from a party in years.
@christiansoldier77
2 жыл бұрын
Amanda LaDouceur Thats the problem right there. Your goal shouldnt be to get rid of the two party system but to make things better for voters which ranked choice doesnt do
@jb34ch1
Жыл бұрын
@@christiansoldier77 your statement is 100% false.
@jb34ch1
Жыл бұрын
@@christiansoldier77 your statement is literally directly contrary to the founder's goals and ideals for our republic. please, next time, try harder to comprehend what is being said in the video. there's a lot of big words, but I have faith that you can do it.
@tim3270
Жыл бұрын
Wouldn't it be better to get rid of political parties all together.
@user-shadowfaxriding
3 жыл бұрын
This is amazing! I love your content! History is awesome :)
@cuttwice3905
3 жыл бұрын
I remember when having friends in the other party was normal. Aren't we all Americans first?
@RosheenQuynh
3 жыл бұрын
Not anymore
@TacticusPrime
3 жыл бұрын
It's become less and less common once Republican operatives determined that they needed to create an alternative reality and prevent crimes from undoing a president, post-Nixon. Through deregulating and expanding talk radio, and then going all in on cable TV like FoxNews, they have been able to construct a fantasy land for their voters to reside in. Studies demonstrate that FoxNews watchers aren't just ignorant but actually very wrong. They demonstrated that you would know more about the news of the world if you watch no news at all than if you watched FoxNews. In the various court cases against talk radio and FoxNews personalities, they argue over and over that they are not reporters and no one can be expected to take them seriously. Which is obviously disingenuous, but it does demonstrate that they can't back up all the crazy that they spout when lying on the stand would put them in jail. This construction of an alternative reality isolates Republicans who have bought into it from the reality based community. There have been Republicans who refuse to buy into the propaganda, but they are generally expunged from the party. I attended a conservative university at the end of the Bush era and beginning of the Obama one. Several of my professors were deeply involved in Republican politics. Basically all of them have been forced out. I have conservative friends, but I don't have any Republican friends.
@natehubbard3902
3 жыл бұрын
LOL you'd think so, yet here we are
@CollectiveWesterner
5 ай бұрын
Country Over Party ❤🇺🇸 ❤
@Thekingofwatching
3 жыл бұрын
Refused to say I’m aligned to a faction. Have voted for anyone I want to
@johnnyroberts3761
3 жыл бұрын
I’m in the same boat. There are values on both sides that I align with, but I side with neither of the big parties
@Bigchannel34
3 жыл бұрын
So You're independent. The smartest kind of voter!
@atheistechoes9594
3 жыл бұрын
Im also non denomination but i have no idea how to vote
@Bigchannel34
3 жыл бұрын
@@atheistechoes9594 if you go to this website you can see how the congresspeople from your state vote. Copy any bill google it to get an understanding then go back to the site to see if they favor the bill "yay" or not "nay." If you don't like the bills they voted for or against... Vote against them in the next election. www.govtrack.us/congress/votes
@onomatopoeia162003
6 ай бұрын
I would say. i agree with 2 factions. But also an unaffiliated voter
@Weissenschenkel
3 жыл бұрын
That's the explanation I was looking for, because it's hard to draw a line where Democrats and Republicans switched roles. Thank you!
@mujerforalibre
3 жыл бұрын
I had lots of high school US history flashbacks watching this video 😂. Thanks for the great work!
@espirulografo
3 жыл бұрын
Great channel greets fromm Uruguay ^^
@johnnykidblue
3 жыл бұрын
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism[…] It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.” - founding father and President George Washington (September 19th 1796)
@RosheenQuynh
3 жыл бұрын
This is why politics is pointless and stupid.
@camillealexandrebonnes2682
3 жыл бұрын
that's a fallacious understanding of politics and society, based on basic platonic criticism. This is just not how the human nature works. It's funny to hear about Jeffersons idea in how the country should have been governed. It actually seems like a basic communist idea.
@RosheenQuynh
3 жыл бұрын
@@camillealexandrebonnes2682 So you like the dissension we're in right now?
@camillealexandrebonnes2682
3 жыл бұрын
@@RosheenQuynh I don't see any solution to it. You're system would be in need of a fundamental reform. As long as everything depends on strong parties behind your back (presidency, senat, representatives, even judge chairs), and as long as there are only two powerful enough, neither of them would and had an interest in splitting up! How would the GOP even split up? Trumpist & Libertarians. The US Dem. Party actually resembles a wide spectrum of typical european centre and leftist parties (labour, greens, socialists, even liberal conservatives, someone like lord dampnut really is at the far right of the political spectrum in europe!) ... so in a way, the Dem. party already is one big compromise. But GOP in contrary is a compromise of racists, religious fanatics and selfish entrepreneurs (just my opinion...) Yet none of them would give up their powers.
@RosheenQuynh
3 жыл бұрын
@@camillealexandrebonnes2682 The government is all corrupt, anyone that powerful can't possibly be humble.
@nebulan
3 жыл бұрын
Knowing Better did a good video about the "Party Switch" that goes into more details about how the south went from Democrat to Republican if anyone is interested.
@angel1895
3 жыл бұрын
Oh! Thanks! I hadn't heard of that channel yet 😁
@makouras
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, that is a really great video, definitely worth watching
@FuckyouCaptainSparkelz
3 жыл бұрын
I don't care about politics
@pushing2throttles
3 жыл бұрын
Who wants to fix America and really truly make America great for once? Disband political parties. Seriously, that is the root cause major single issue that paralyzes our federal, state, and local governments.
@jafrad.thomas8399
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!!!!
@pbsorigins
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your support, Jafra! - Sheridan
@lostbutfreesoul
3 жыл бұрын
Plurality Voting will always devolve into two parties.... CGPGray's 'Politics in the Animal Kingdom' series touched on all of this.
@Tony.H03
3 жыл бұрын
If you watched that series closely you see that is only true _in first past the post systems_ . Having such a system is a choice. There are many other options available where plurality of opinion has a place. It would be very good for the US to have that.
@williamjanak2013
3 жыл бұрын
You do realize that most countries have more then two parties? There might be two major parties, the secondary parties generally are allowed to talked about and people are not shamed if they support them.
@SoniaSephia
3 жыл бұрын
I really love you videos! They are VERY informative and most importantly academically back up!
@gatorwoman71-the-real-one
2 жыл бұрын
This was fascinating and a great and very relatable summary of a topic all Americans should know about. I'm curious what would happen to the Electoral College if we didn't have a two-party system, especially since Electors are not obligated to vote according to the popular sentiment in their state. Thanks for producing such great content! All of your videos are wonderful!
@Hermes_Agoraeus
3 жыл бұрын
Voting my favorite in the primary, and then the lesser of two evils in the general helps keep the party Kool-Aid away.
@RosheenQuynh
3 жыл бұрын
Evil is still evil.
@bettyhoman1299
3 жыл бұрын
I enjoy your videos.
@drparham
3 жыл бұрын
What I really don't understand is why do registered voters have to claim a political affiliation I understand why the politicians have to but do everyday citizens need to claim a party? Shouldn't they just be able to vote on the politics they believe
@MukoroJr
Жыл бұрын
We claim a party because when you do that way when there is a party you wont be denied entry. That way you can have fun. Great music everyone drinking and dancing and who know you might get lucky and find a woman
@MukoroJr
Жыл бұрын
Make sense?
@kathrynhagemeier2505
3 жыл бұрын
Way to go. You explained it correctly from being to end.
@MisterCynic18
3 жыл бұрын
We should've listened
@RosheenQuynh
3 жыл бұрын
Sadly, we never will...
@surgeneral108
3 жыл бұрын
Well done! ...I learned a lot 👍🏾
@jokerfacebitch
3 жыл бұрын
I really appreciated how you connected the early party developments from the Glorious Revolution in England's govt. Thank you for helping me see that connection
@jannettekirwin4530
2 жыл бұрын
Omg. I know, I know!!! I'm so glad I found your channel.
@KDuBgFX
3 жыл бұрын
Great vid! How have you learned to speakl so fluid? You have a very crisp pronunciation & vocabulary.
@mltnetwork
3 жыл бұрын
This is good and very, very informative....thank you!!
@benjsmithproductions
3 ай бұрын
Such a huge detail that we rarely talk about, that Political Parties are still unofficial in the US federal system. It's one of the reasons there's no American parliament.
@liamobrien6151
7 ай бұрын
The history of policing is pretty much impossible to disentangle from the history of bad laws, the history of passing too many laws, the history of bad practices, and the reflection of the flaws and poor attitudes and prejudices in society in each era. It may make it difficult to consider how law enforcement could work and what specific reforms could make it work as fairly and safely as possible.
@lemar2122
2 жыл бұрын
You have to have political parties to implement the divide and conquer strategy.
@yiotatort
3 жыл бұрын
Prior to maybe this past decade I thought I understood more or less both political parties and as a youth I felt very much like a centrist. There was racism which was bad, but very much a part of both parties. There were the wealthy business owners self centered and the delusion of the middle class assisted by media that wealth was around the corner, but it was again very much a part of both parties. I mean each party had it's stand, but I got the impression society as a whole was moving in the right direction if slowly. But there has been a shift against science and against what is called political correctness, but is honestly just a perception of shared humanity that made me go wait, what? Then you ask what's going on? The answers are "I'm not racist, but" or "I'm not mysogynistic, but". So I see family and friends saying these things, and I start to wonder if I ever knew them at all.
@donaldsawyer2618
2 жыл бұрын
No matter how many times explained I do not understand parties. Most people want healthcare, little crime, employment and housing. So why do I need to believe some party for that? Both simply want funds and re-election. Local level politics is most important and most people do not get involved in it
@kathrynhagemeier2505
3 жыл бұрын
Good job on explaining Political Parties in American history.
@dcsignal5241
3 жыл бұрын
"Democratic demographic" say that 3 times fast.
@saraa.4295
3 жыл бұрын
I think it is natuural for those with similar views to. Kinda group together...but most couuntries have a proportional system, so there are way more parties, so the party actual gives voters more info about the candidate....
@1993greeksoldier
3 жыл бұрын
I hope the usa gets to a better system some day
@christiansoldier77
2 жыл бұрын
@@1993greeksoldier Two party is the best system
@bowserheadteacher
Жыл бұрын
Because the purpose of political parties is to unite people with similar political beliefs so voters know what they stand for.
@Tony.H03
3 жыл бұрын
This is so drenched in first past the post/binary politics. Parties are very problematic in such systems because they kill all other opinion. In proportional, multipartisan representation parties can actually empower different opinions.
@christiansoldier77
2 жыл бұрын
Toon Holman Including bad opinions like the Nazis. The Nazis came to power precisely because of the multi party system
@christianrowe992
2 жыл бұрын
I can't wait for new parties
@crosstraindoublebay4637
3 жыл бұрын
Love your videos. I would have been a history teacher if she was my teacher.
@soze8415
3 ай бұрын
I will be glad when everyone who runs is independent and there are no more parties. People are party voting and have no ideal what's going on.
@LimeyLassen
3 жыл бұрын
It's strange that they would warn about factionalism, but do nothing to prevent it. Encouraging people to "put nation over party" is completely silly. People go hard on one party because if they other one wins they're screwed. It's rational.
@blueberryj2
3 жыл бұрын
Thats why im independent
@christophermm23
3 жыл бұрын
I love this channel
@aaronburrell3729
2 жыл бұрын
It’s almost like the Republican Party saved everything. 🤔
@imperialhistati2348
2 жыл бұрын
So it’s politics that succeeds in reversing the formalization of human rights? Huh… Who would’ve guessed.
@marcglenn
3 жыл бұрын
Every American should read George Washington’s farewell address.
@justinmcnally5395
23 күн бұрын
You all are WAY overthinking what a political party is...for anyone new to politics looking for a simplified answer, a political party is a club...It's a club of people with similar social, economic, and political ideas doing stuff to obtain power and advocate for things they believe in....BOOM.
@kimobrien.
11 ай бұрын
Parties represent class interests despite who votes for them.
@romecottrell4558
2 жыл бұрын
I think of this topic myself, and every election we the American people are arguing over which of the 2 parties 🥳 the Democrats and Republicans are going to make the U.S.A be more concerned with our needs. And most of us already know that neither political parties give a damn 🙄 about our feelings. So why don't we just vote for a 3rd party candidate 🤔? That would be at least someone different political 😉. Remember Election year 2024 , just my opinion folks 🤷🏾♂️.
@AngelsArmour
Жыл бұрын
Good video
@dangerislost2979
2 жыл бұрын
Now this is my type of history teacher, explaining how badly the political parties are. And yet no one ever would consider removal of the political parties from a president but yet, it could only be done with a independent party which is “no political party” but only your beliefs and what your own rulings you want if they accept the rulings you want. I am gonna be honest being if it was possible to have a president that goes against the political parties and got the right to remove the parties with very good choices and rulings for us all. Only the best president in history would do that if we get one like that.
@christiansoldier77
2 жыл бұрын
Having politics without parties is like having the NFL without teams . It is impossible
@done4482
Жыл бұрын
Not true
@christiansoldier77
Жыл бұрын
@@done4482 It's true. People of like mind always join together
@jacksonamaral329
3 жыл бұрын
cool.
@camillealexandrebonnes2682
3 жыл бұрын
It's somewhat normal that you do not have close friends in opposite parties. In Germany e.g. that's neither usually the case. Although we have more parties and a wider spectrum, you would hardly see friendships between a green/socialist and libertarian/conservative, it's more like center block and left and right wing. But this differentiation actually makes it much more fluid than the american political culture.
@DD-Lo
3 жыл бұрын
Country over Party... Yesss!
@ryan-kun
3 жыл бұрын
3:07 is that the meme man over there??
@jodyherman4388
3 жыл бұрын
"Unanticipated"?? Ever read the Federalist papers? They knew it would happen and that's why they did term limits and the electoral college...
@MukoroJr
Жыл бұрын
right they did. I went to an electorial college and I saw beautiful women. I tried out for the basketball team and made it. I graduated with a phd in electricity.
@ANewEvilRising
3 жыл бұрын
im still confused as to what a political party actually is? its a group of people that share the same ideas and beliefs? then they try to make these beliefs the rules and guidelines for everyone to follow? what if there are some slight disagreements on some ideas but not most of them? is that a whole new political party or is there some other way to define this? do we need political parties?
@RosheenQuynh
3 жыл бұрын
This is exactly why I am not political and couldn't care less about politics. Like I always said, it was created to cause division and look at us now... We're nothing more than a divided nation. We're better off without politics. Both sides have become corrupt, politics has poisoned us.
@heatherswanson1664
3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like you have a similar viewpoint as the CCP in China. It's a fair point, there is something to be gained by the cohesion in a one-party system where the citizens don't create more division amongst themselves.
@RosheenQuynh
3 жыл бұрын
@@heatherswanson1664 It's fine to believe different things but not at the expense of peace.
@happyfacefries
3 жыл бұрын
Washington also said presidents should only serve one term but served two... #justsayin
@christianrowe992
2 жыл бұрын
There wasn't set terms yet when he said that one term should be the only term so he could be fine with 10 years if one term was 10 years not two terms of 10
@williammetcalfe5807
3 жыл бұрын
Amen n thank you
@Mullet-ZubazPants
3 жыл бұрын
Bill Clinton was influenced by Georgetown Prof. Carroll Quigley. This is how Quigley thought the two party system should work ... “The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical"
@christiansoldier77
2 жыл бұрын
Wolfgang Von Zubaz That is ridiculous. People have differing opinions on a variety of issues so that means you will have different parties with differing ideologies
@Mullet-ZubazPants
2 жыл бұрын
@@christiansoldier77 Bill Clinton moved the democratic party into neoliberalism. Democrats today are right of 80's and early 90's Republicans. Today the parties are virtually the same on the issues that matter like foreign policy, and monetary policy. They only differ on wedge issues
@christiansoldier77
2 жыл бұрын
@@Mullet-ZubazPants Democrats today arent right they are left and farther left than anyone that came before them. Its the Republicans who are left of the Democrats from past years
@raquell9642
3 жыл бұрын
We may need a new party
@NotHPotter
3 жыл бұрын
*cue "the party switch didn't happen" comments*
@christianrowe992
2 жыл бұрын
Cue "the party switch happened" comments
@donkeykong4983
3 жыл бұрын
✝️
@moodist1er
3 жыл бұрын
Why'd you all kill Socrates?
@LimeyLassen
3 жыл бұрын
He sneezed on my salad.
@rafaelfcf
3 жыл бұрын
Origin Of Everything : Why Do We Have Political Parties? Me: So we know who are the Fascists and who are the sell-outs!
@evilotto9200
3 жыл бұрын
i see you went with the "when in polite company" monikers
@tlhawthorne
3 жыл бұрын
Knowing that is all about perspective?
@rafaelfcf
3 жыл бұрын
@@evilotto9200 Hummmmmm, idk. Is "Fascist" a euphemism?? Maybe! The world is so crazy it could be! That's depressing!
@rafaelfcf
3 жыл бұрын
@@tlhawthorne is that a rhetorical question?
@JoshuaRichardson-q2f
8 ай бұрын
I LOVE YOU 😘😘😘😘
@Shazistic
3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make people feel happy -Shazistic
@evilotto9200
3 жыл бұрын
there are over a half million elected office holders in the us can you imagine if each had to be bought off individually?! party system with entrenched, consolidated leadership ftw
@TacticusPrime
3 жыл бұрын
Humans have different opinions. Humans are also social creatures that form tribes. It was insane to suggest that political factions should be prevented. In single party states, there are still political factions. They are just hidden from the wider populace. In Washington's administration, Hamilton and Jefferson formed competing factions. In communist countries there are plenty of different factions, for example Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin headed separate factions within the CCP. It's only in multi-party states that provide voters actual power, and the more parties the better. Coalition governments force politicians to make their faction alliances out in public. The Democratic party and Republican party are also riven by faction, but those negotiations are behind closed doors. That's all that Washington's philosophy amounted to: keeping the common people strictly limited to choosing the most distinguished members of their local community to give power and keeping them out of political discussions.
@raquell9642
3 жыл бұрын
2 parties ? I was taught there are 6 parties Republican , democratic , conservative , liberalism , independent , constitutionalist . There may be more , but they are so small that nobody supports those parties
@Nekrochomikon8
3 жыл бұрын
She didn't say there are only 2 parties.
@nasalimbu3078
3 жыл бұрын
Native Primitive
@salifyanyimbron
3 жыл бұрын
💪🏽💦
@bankcasino480
3 жыл бұрын
When Are you gonna start telling the truth?
@christianrowe992
2 жыл бұрын
@Trade Bum Simmons no the write question is why I the truth 🤣
@lakeugly
3 жыл бұрын
Political parties should be illegal.
@christiansoldier77
2 жыл бұрын
lakeugly Thats stupid
@ibeeline9431
2 жыл бұрын
@@christiansoldier77 Not stupider than allowing elites to keep the masses divided and being taken advantage of with their lies and lack of representation from politicians.
@christiansoldier77
2 жыл бұрын
@@ibeeline9431 Making parties illegal wouldnt change any of that
@ibeeline9431
2 жыл бұрын
@@christiansoldier77 How do you think those crooks control people? Politicians. It’s a step towards people finding a way to use their brains instead of trusting the snakes and being perpetually screwed. Don’t be naive.
@christiansoldier77
2 жыл бұрын
@@ibeeline9431 There will always be parties and factions even if you make them illegal.
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