How the parties flipped around.

Isn't it surprising to know that the part that wants to build the wall once the same party that supported getting rid of slavery, and the one that wants to open up our borders were once hell-bent on white supremacy? Well, to sum it up, it's because their corresponding ideologies took a major flip. It's really more like a name thing.Isn't

Let's go back in time for just a sec- when Andrew Jackson was running for president. Jackson was an interesting candidate (and president), and at the time he wanted to take on the elites of the nation, similar to what we saw in Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, in comparison. He won a landslide election, and his supporters believed that it was their time to rule the nation, thus forming a party dubbed "The Democratic Party". At the time, it was made up of white supremacists, many of whom were overwhelmingly conservative while at it.

At the time, conservatism also meant supporting manifest destiny, the belief that these white men were entitled to all of America. Thus, after gaining most of the land, the debate rose whether we should restrict slavery in these states or not. Conservatives went the other way and didn't have any will to remove slavery whatsoever. The opposing part at the time couldn't make a strong decision and eventually collapsed and turned into what we now know as the GOP, based more on liberal ideals at the time. Eventually, they got their way through Civil War, and the Democratic party went quiet.

For several more years to come, the Republicans put more focus onto more social issues, but eventually, the party gave up on trying to reform social issues and focused more on the economy of things, vouching towards smaller government and big business. Once 1920 came around however, their philosophy tanked, giving way for FDR, the opposition to create a bigger government and build America back. Eventually, both parties focused less on social issues and more on economic ones, till the 1950's, where LBJ, a

Democrat, signed in the Civil Rights act. By this time, having lost it's focus on social issues, the Democratic party was a place for both social conservatives and liberals. The same was for the Republican party.

So, the conservatives weren't too happy about this, and slowly left the Democratic name for the opposition, making the Democratic party home to a majority of liberals. As social issues slowly began to gain tension again, conservative ideals(held more in the south) shifted towards the Republican name, and, naturally, liberalism shifted more towards the Democratic Party, forming the ideas we know today to make up both of these parties.

What's for the future? Well, we most certainly seem to have a shift in social issues, which now tend to be more liberal than ever before. This rise on social issues may once again have the possibility to change our parties once more. Stay tuned for the sequel, which will be more about the future of where our parties and less about the past.