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  1. The Gilded Age through to the Roaring 20s created massive economic inequality. Leading into the Great Depression, there were all kinds of labour riots, etc. Democrats sided more and more with the workers. Then came the crash, depression, FDR, and his New Deal. Unionization spiked, and Democrats were the party of workers and their unions. HUAC started upping it's game against "leftists", and then came McCarthyism in the early 50s. Things started shifting to the right, again, as did the Democrats. Reagan came along and pushed things even further right. Economically, the two parties became not all that different, both right wing, Democrats swapping union support for corporate support as unionization rates dropped. They differed more and more on social issues (Republicans taking in very religious views, and taking in the Southern racists). The Tea Party nuts took the Republicans to an even more extreme right, leaving Democrats right wing, but left of them. Progressives want to return to the true centrist position, like FDR. A truer centre between all out capitalism and all out socialism. The current "centrist" corporate Dems want to stay in the "centre" between Republicans and Progressives, and stick with their now corporate backers.
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