Democrat Platform 100 years ago

[ClayBarham]

What ever happened to the Democrat Party in the 115 years since this declaration.
“The representatives of the Democratic Party of the United States, in National Convention assembled, do reaffirm their allegiance to the principles of the party, as formulated by Jefferson and exemplified by the long and illustrious line of his successors in Democratic leadership, from Madison to Cleveland, we believe the public welfare demands that these principles be applied to the conduct of the Federal Government, through the accession to power of the party that advocates them; and we solemnly declare that the need to return to these fundamental principles of free popular government, based on home rule and individual liberty, was never more urgent than now, when the tendency to centralize all power at the Federal capital has become a menace to the reserved rights of the States that strikes at the very roots of our Government under the Constitution as framed by the fathers of the Republic.”
Is this a radical, right wing declaration? Was this the real Democratic Party? Did the Old World leftists just move in, take over and the 1892 Democrats meekly followed along?

[Drocket]

Congratulations on only being a century behind on your understanding of American politics! Keep working hard and before you know it, you'll be all the way up to the 20th century!

[ClayBarham]

Well, I need not work too hard on that, as so many know so much, but their knowledge about the foundation of the building is so bad, people like me have to keep trying to inform those who have never learned and have no appreciation for it.

[wonder cow]

Congratulations on only being a century behind on your understanding of American politics!

Drocket, don't you know that the Dems and Reps are the only two parties in American history and have been unchanged since the founding of our country? Don't you know that Dems have always been evil and Reps have always been good? The GOP is the party of Jesus, Thomas Jefferson, and Abe Lincoln. The Dems are the party of Bill Clinton.

Ghee, Drocket. Keep up..

[ClayBarham]

As usual, wondercow, your logic is beyond all other mortals, It must be great to be an elite.

[quiet man]

that might have been the platform then but several changes have taken place. this could be considered the foundation of the party with the rest of the building above. in this case the number of remodels is off the charts. phyillis diller and joan rivers are probably the only ones with more changes.

[ClayBarham]

They are changed by the people in them. In the time since that 1892 Platform, the Union leftists, NEA, and Roger Baldwin ACLU types, Alger Hiss, and a whole bunch of people almost rooted out by Senator McCarthy and the HCUA, grabbed party power and flipped the party. There are many Democrats out there who still mistakeny believe the 1892 Platform is still valid, which leaves them supporting those opposed to their own deep beliefs.
The GOP was captured by the Teddy-crats for a time, then more conservative under Taft, then leftward again under guys like Cabot Lodge and Nelson Rockefeller, then flipped again by the Goldwater's people. Under the Bush 41 and 43, the GOP has shifted back to the Rockefeller side, to the counrty club RINO's, leaving the conservatives without a home. It always seems like a battle just to keep a party in line with the thinking of those who slip unwillingly into minority status.