Occupy vs the Anti-Social Justice Movement

[Zorra]

53. Do you believe that Thomas Jefferson, considered the founder of the Democratic Party,

was a corporatist?

Although I understand and agree with you to some degree, I believe you missed some history here. I'm also disappointed with the way conservative DLC/Third Way corporatists have taken over the Party, and think that corporatists have had way too much malevolent influence on the Democratic Party in the past. But in the grand scheme of things, the Democratic Party has, generally, been the political organization that has acted on behalf of the people to maintain our rights and increase opportunities for our well-being. Republicans would have long ago sold the 99% to the highest bidder if it were not for Democratic Party opposition to them.

Jefferson is considered to be the founder or the Democratic Party and the ideology of the Democratic Party.

If you wish to argue that Jefferson was a corporatist, then I will not be able to take what you post seriously anymore.

Jefferson-Jackson Day

Democratic Party

The Democratic Party evolved from Anti-Federalist factions that opposed the fiscal policies of Alexander Hamilton in the early 1790s. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison organized these factions into the Democratic-Republican Party. The party favored states' rights and strict adherence to the Constitution; it opposed a national bank and wealthy, moneyed interests. The Democratic-Republican Party ascended to power in the election of 1800.
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The Democratic Party traces its origins to the inspiration of Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other influential opponents of the Federalists in 1792. That party also inspired the Whigs and modern Republicans. Organizationally, the modern Democratic Party truly arose in the 1830s, with the election of Andrew Jackson. Since the division of the Republican Party in the election of 1912, it has gradually positioned itself to the left of the Republican Party on economic and social issues. Until the period following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964—which was championed by a Democratic president but faced lower Democratic than Republican support in Congress—the Democratic Party was primarily a coalition of two parties divided by region. Southern Democrats were typically given high conservative ratings by the American Conservative Union while northern Democrats were typically given very liberal ratings. Southern Democrats were a core bloc of the bipartisan conservative coalition which lasted through the Reagan-era. The economically activist philosophy of Franklin D. Roosevelt, which has strongly influenced American liberalism, has shaped much of the party's economic agenda since 1932, and served to tie the two regional factions of the party together until the late 1960s. In fact, Roosevelt's New Deal coalition usually controlled the national government until the 1970s.

Andrew Jackson

The 1830–1850 period later became known as the era of Jacksonian democracy.[1]

Jackson was nicknamed "Old Hickory" because of his toughness and aggressive personality; he fought in duels, some fatal to his opponents. He was a rich slaveholder, who appealed to the common men of the United States, and fought politically against what he denounced as a closed, undemocratic aristocracy. He expanded the spoils system during his presidency to strengthen his political base.

....Historians acknowledge his protection of popular democracy and individual liberty for United States citizens, and criticize him for his support for slavery and for his role in Indian removal.

The Democratic Party is not the party of saints, but it is the only major political organization that has consistently supported , to some degree, the rights of the 99% over the greed of the 1%.

Yeh, recently...I agree with you, not as nearly much as they should be. That's why Occupy came into being as a tangible entity.