Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "The Philosophy Behind America’s Ideological Civil War" video.

You have to understand the history of the US Capitol, as it was constructed, along with the Washington Monument, to be a Federalist temple. It was a copy of St. Paul's Cathedral, and they wanted to entomb Washington in the basement. This was the same Washington that they first wanted to make a king. These were the same federalists that had George Washington painted as a demigod in the rotunda's ceiling. The Capitol grounds represent an owl from the air, which sits on the tip of a sword that makes up the mall. Occult much? Federalism runs like a huge socialist cult, and it eventually led to progressivism after 1901, which infected both parties. The GOP finally kicked them out between 1910-12, but they reinfested it again at the end of WWII.
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@KopperNeoman There were two lines of political philosophy with the founders from the day that the Declaration was signed, and they were Jeffersonian Republicanism, which was Aristotelian, and Hamiltonian Federalism, which was Hobbesian. Hamilton wanted a big brother government tied to big business and big banking, which made the states something similar to non-sovereign counties or shires. Of course, this flew in the face of the Constitution. Jefferson's party eventually became the Democratic Party after the split. The federalists, who had lost their party, joined with Madison's lot, where they finally became the Whig Party, and then the GOP under Clay and Lincoln. However, after the reconstruction, and toward the end of the nineteenth century, the Bourbon Democrats arose, which was light federalism, and they were pro-big business and banking. Wilson was from this very lot, and he was playing with socialism as well. "They represented business interests, generally supporting the goals of banking and railroads, but opposed to subsidies for them and were unwilling to protect them from competition." Thus, they were already leaning toward federalism. Jefferson originally believed in a limited compact-type central government, (a pact between the states), state sovereignty, state's rights, no taxes, was anti-central banking, anti-corruption, anti-offensive war, anti-standing army, and pro-liberty, which was exactly opposite of the federalists. However, both he and Madison started siding with the federalists by the last two years of Madison's presidency, which eventually led to the split in the Democratic-Republican Party, where Rep. Randolph of Roanoke led the Old Republicans. He stated this about the original Jeffersonian Republican idea: "Love of peace, hatred of offensive war, jealousy of the state governments toward the general government; a dread of standing armies; a loathing of public debts, taxes, and excises; tenderness for the liberty of the citizen; jealousy, Argus-eyed jealousy of the patronage of the President"
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