Republicans - A One Minute History

In America, the first Republican was Thomas Jefferson. He referred to himself as Republican, and to the hated opposition as Federalist. Jefferson stood for freedom from gov't while the Federalists, led primarily by Hamilton, Adams and Washington, stood for a belief in strong central gov't, despite the obvious lessons of world history from which Jefferson created America. Federalists, correspond to modern day Democrats who share that same identical Federalist belief in gov't over freedom. Indeed, the battle joined by Jefferson and Hamilton (largely won by Jefferson in the election of 1800) to define the meaning of the American Revolution goes on today with no significant changes, despite attempts from many directions to maintain peace by hiding America's eternally unresolved founding from us.

Today, instead of Federalists, monarchists, royalists, and loyalists (the 1/3 of Americans who were loyal to and sometimes fought for England during the Revolution) , we have communists, socialists, liberals, and Democrats. Republicans remain unchanged in their steadfast belief that all of the evil in human history was and is caused by gov't, and that America's Jeffersonian gift to humanity is to demonstrate this precise principal which, tragically, has always been perfectly antithetical to mankind's dominant and most fundamental herd instinct.

Oddly, to Republicans the above concept is elementary, but to Democrats it is utterly mysterious. In the end, attempting to teach it to them is like teaching calculus to gold fish. It is just not possible within the context of a limited Democratic mind. In fact, Democrats energetically cling to their Santa Claus big gov't feelings with a kind of unshakeable, brainless bigotry. They stand proudly as objective symbols to why it is that most governments in all ages have been mostly evil, while freedom has only found one voice in the person of Thomas Jefferson without whom even America would have had no freedom.

Interestingly, the derivation of Jefferson's Republicanism is mostly unknown, even to Republicans. Most have forgotten or never knew that Jefferson was a physiocrat. This means, essentially, that he believed all wealth came from land. He therefore believed America should be a land of yeoman farmers tied to the land. Physiocrats were the leading economists of the time, and proponents of this theory to which Jefferson subscribed. If you had said to them that manufacturing and services would come to dominate the economy in the coming centuries and that farmers would only constitute 3% of the population they simply would not have believed it possible.

Oddly, it was Alexander Hamilton, the leading Federalist, who seemed to understand the industrial Revolution (already far along in England) far better than did Jefferson, and who wanted to organize American Federal govt to take full advantage of it. But neither Jefferson nor Hamilton understood the economic wisdom of Adam Smith whose well known book "The Wealth of Nations" ( published in 1776), has become the basis of modern Republican economic thinking. Accordingly, Hamilton was adamantly and hawkishly in favor of England, big business, central banking, manufacturing, gov't regulation of business, and centralized American gov't, while Jefferson was in favor of France (literally decapitating their own Federalists at the time) , farming, state banks, and very limited American gov't.

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