Was George Washington a Republican or a Democrat?

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George Washington's Mount Vernon

George Washington's Mount Vernon

5 жыл бұрын

Why was Washington not a member of a political party? Dr. Kevin Butterfield, executive director of the Washington Library, explains.

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@DCryptoNC
@DCryptoNC 5 жыл бұрын
He was an American.
@Creativity06
@Creativity06 4 жыл бұрын
More like European
@garta1202
@garta1202 4 жыл бұрын
@@Creativity06 yeah man how dare he be born in a different country and pretend to be a real american, god i wanted a dictator in america instead of a fair term of 4 years in presidency
@chadwickwhite6107
@chadwickwhite6107 3 жыл бұрын
He wasn't just an American. George Washington was a GREAT AMERICAN.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@s19lol37
@s19lol37 3 жыл бұрын
@@chadwickwhite6107 he was literally a British officer
@enshen2190
@enshen2190 3 жыл бұрын
@@Creativity06 wasn’t he a Virginian though?
@Nebulasecura
@Nebulasecura 4 жыл бұрын
And he was right. The political party system has been broken for most of our nation’s history, and became worse after the civil war.
@lilianafox7401
@lilianafox7401 4 жыл бұрын
Yep that's why I'm now a non voter. I hate both parties especially what happened this year
@MariaGarcia-xc6tz
@MariaGarcia-xc6tz 3 жыл бұрын
@@lilianafox7401 lmao
@Nebulasecura
@Nebulasecura 3 жыл бұрын
@@lilianafox7401 yup and now the situation is even worse, I can easily see the Union having another civil war between the political ideologies, with how hostile both sides are becoming
@breezywarhead8489
@breezywarhead8489 3 жыл бұрын
@@Nebulasecura that’s mean china going to invade asian countries then europe
@natashanonnattive4818
@natashanonnattive4818 3 жыл бұрын
We must take our rightful place as the boss over our States. Join your state Assemblies
@Istopusing123
@Istopusing123 3 жыл бұрын
Short Answer: Neither He opposed the 2 Party system and said it would tear the country apart.
@renjuno1991
@renjuno1991 2 жыл бұрын
and the system does what he said
@bomberguy06
@bomberguy06 3 жыл бұрын
George is rolling in his grave.
@Nebulasecura
@Nebulasecura 3 жыл бұрын
Damn straight, especially here in 2020, with how the democrats in particular are acting, although both parties are pretty bad nowadays.
@Nebulasecura
@Nebulasecura 3 жыл бұрын
@MrQ 2004 pretty much.
@AlonzoMarquisGraychipmonk
@AlonzoMarquisGraychipmonk 3 жыл бұрын
@InSpaceDude Trump and the right wing conservative republicans are way worse than the left wing liberal Democrat because of the irrational conspiracy theories and the fear mongering hardcore negativity. The left meant no harm, they just wanted the nation to be more inclusive and more diverse but with the cancel culture thing, they got carried away.
@ThreeDeeIcon
@ThreeDeeIcon 3 жыл бұрын
@InSpaceDude Lets look at the ScoreBoard thus far: How much rioting & looting are the brainwashed antifa/blm & bluehaired weirdo libertards responsible for since the day Trump walked in office, and how much are the "extreme Trump followers" responsible for.
@unrealpotato2230
@unrealpotato2230 2 жыл бұрын
@@AlonzoMarquisGraychipmonk they went more and more extreme in steps and the liberals have just as many conspiracies against the republicans
@anthonyhuntley4498
@anthonyhuntley4498 3 жыл бұрын
Everything happening now, in the late 1700’s he predicted it. From the division amongst the people to the corruption in the government and everything else he said he nailed it!
@daltongalloway
@daltongalloway 8 ай бұрын
Those things were already happening and have happened since human history began
@GravitonCA
@GravitonCA 5 жыл бұрын
The government does not need to be defined as Democratic or Republican to function.
@diamondinthesky4771
@diamondinthesky4771 3 жыл бұрын
Political parties should be banned honestly They've gotten extremely out of hand.
@harshitgarg419
@harshitgarg419 11 ай бұрын
dems def. did the most damage
@ronaldronca6060
@ronaldronca6060 2 жыл бұрын
Washington felt political parties were an "evil to be avoided". Why didn't they listen.
@RJAustin09
@RJAustin09 5 жыл бұрын
The parties are divided by philosophical differences, and I would argue, something even deeper than that. Washington would not have shown equal judgment to both parties, but only those who champion individual liberty. Many others would have been seen as traitors to the cause for which they sacrificed.
@nora22000
@nora22000 5 жыл бұрын
Read Washington's farewell speech. He clearly endorsed central government, not simply rich men having liberty.
@nora22000
@nora22000 Жыл бұрын
@@jmcb5062 the war was against a corporation getting tax dollars, not against empowering central government.
@DR-xr8gv
@DR-xr8gv Жыл бұрын
I don't think it is that mysterious. those who think they will become wealthy vote republican, those wise enough to know that is not reality. don't. the moral issues drawn are falsehoods. abortion law is need to flex with population needs to sustain the old. this all happened already in Soviet Russia. from legal, to illegal, to legal again. Churches take a republican stance against welfare, while being the source of public assistance. if government provided welfarex they would get no federal funding. it's another vote for self enrichment.
@jerryholbrook13
@jerryholbrook13 4 жыл бұрын
Because political parties are not constitutional!
@kennyflanders8337
@kennyflanders8337 4 жыл бұрын
He wasn't A Republican or A Democrat, He was a Federalist, Just like his ally, Alexander Hamilton
@lowiq224
@lowiq224 4 жыл бұрын
Wasn't Hamilton a democratic-republican
@kennyflanders8337
@kennyflanders8337 4 жыл бұрын
@@lowiq224 no, he was a Federalist
@lowiq224
@lowiq224 4 жыл бұрын
@@kennyflanders8337 I thought he was federalist and then changed to a democratic Republican
@AMoistEggroll
@AMoistEggroll 4 жыл бұрын
That would've made sense if he actually joined the Federalist Party. Just because he tended to side with them doesn't mean he wanted to be affiliated with the party. Nonpartisan and independent all the way to the end.
@abointedtoyblingofmats
@abointedtoyblingofmats 3 жыл бұрын
Hamilton was not liked by anyone with sense for his idiotic and destructive belief of money supply printing left to private banks
@cesarcanete3402
@cesarcanete3402 3 жыл бұрын
Why wasn't George Washington a member of a political party? Because he's smart and wise enough not to. That's why.
@-nobody6272
@-nobody6272 4 жыл бұрын
Good grief I miss him. We should have stayed his vision!
@trotoxd6827
@trotoxd6827 4 жыл бұрын
you miss him?
@-nobody6272
@-nobody6272 4 жыл бұрын
@@trotoxd6827 Guess I just gave away my age. I look pretty good for being over 200yrs old! HA!
@lilianafox7401
@lilianafox7401 4 жыл бұрын
Yea Washington and Lincoln the best
@niniwuwu4565
@niniwuwu4565 3 жыл бұрын
@@lilianafox7401 he owned slaves
@Nebulasecura
@Nebulasecura 3 жыл бұрын
@@niniwuwu4565 he was the only prominent founding father to free all of them upon the death of him and his wife though, and privately disliked it after the war, however he didn’t choose to speak up about it in fear that the sensitive and dangerous issue might break apart the young republic
@treynoe8240
@treynoe8240 5 жыл бұрын
It definitely anticipated them, but didn’t expect them to be this big or corrupt...
@Andy_Dagamer
@Andy_Dagamer 3 жыл бұрын
If people would vote based on the policies and values of candidates rather than their political parties then this nation would be so much greater
@RonaldKern
@RonaldKern 5 жыл бұрын
Excellent, accurate, and appreciated.
@donaldj3286
@donaldj3286 4 жыл бұрын
First and best president.
@dennisbeers
@dennisbeers 5 жыл бұрын
Well done!
@AlonzoMarquisGraychipmonk
@AlonzoMarquisGraychipmonk 3 жыл бұрын
Says the guy with the Trump 2024 profile picture. You are part of the god damn problem and your favorite president, good ole Trump? He’s the worst of them all.
@mr.coffee5220
@mr.coffee5220 3 жыл бұрын
Neither, he was unaffiliated because he knew through history that political parties divide and destroy nations.
@MrDosonhai
@MrDosonhai 4 жыл бұрын
To this day, I never think we even need a political party. Every decision for the direction of a country must be based on facts and reasons, not emotion. Political parties run by emotions, not facts and reasons. Humanity has thousands of years of civilization, if we're not sure about something, just look at the past and learn from it.
@AlonzoMarquisGraychipmonk
@AlonzoMarquisGraychipmonk 3 жыл бұрын
Remember the past but do not get stuck in it. Live for the present day. Live for the future.
@billbahr
@billbahr 5 жыл бұрын
Very well done! However, I like your Facebook title ("Why was Washington not a member of a political party?") better than the one you now have here for KZfaq ("Was George Washington a Republican or a Democrat"). As you well know, in Washington's day, the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans were the parties he was concerned about. As well, there are problems with easy correlations between Federalists with current Republicans and Democratic-Republicans with current Democrats. As they say, "just say'in!" :) But titles aside, again well done!
@user-jy5mg6xe6p
@user-jy5mg6xe6p Ай бұрын
I find it sad I can’t find any relatives of our forefather today. What an amazing person Washington was.
@GravitonCA
@GravitonCA 5 жыл бұрын
The real term was Federalist and anti-federalist or Confederate.
@MelkorTolkien
@MelkorTolkien 4 жыл бұрын
The anti-federalists became known as the Democratic-Republican Party.
@rodneyj.6875
@rodneyj.6875 2 жыл бұрын
I love my Dad George for this reason .
@K.C.-Games
@K.C.-Games 5 жыл бұрын
He was a independent
@apples9896
@apples9896 4 жыл бұрын
No he was a dependent, dependent on the American people.
@m.whitmore1974
@m.whitmore1974 4 жыл бұрын
No cause as he said there was not a parties until later
@theshield1613
@theshield1613 3 жыл бұрын
Independent
@jonjonboi3701
@jonjonboi3701 3 жыл бұрын
Son Gohan independent means that you have no political party affiliation. That means you aren’t democrat or republican. George Washington was more likely to be an independent
@Hans_Niemand
@Hans_Niemand 3 жыл бұрын
Washington's experience with the "True Whig" party during the Revolution probably contributed to his opinion.
@Sage521
@Sage521 3 жыл бұрын
Debating whether the Man who wanted NO political parties in this country would be in _any party_ is ridiculous.
@JustinKenward
@JustinKenward 2 жыл бұрын
It's a reason I'm registered as none affiliated
@robertortiz-wilson1588
@robertortiz-wilson1588 2 жыл бұрын
What a great man.
@bigstuntnsp
@bigstuntnsp 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine they kept it where the runner up became the vice president.
@RitoJr1982
@RitoJr1982 3 жыл бұрын
He was correct, this country might as well be every man or woman for themselves
@nathanburton710
@nathanburton710 3 жыл бұрын
He was a federalist even more so after he was president he went back to Virginia and actively work to get more federalist into the Virginia state government
@gallibon1319
@gallibon1319 Жыл бұрын
DAMN STRAIGHT GEORGE. This is why he's my favorite president.
@homosapien0000
@homosapien0000 3 жыл бұрын
Well he was right. Here we are.. again
@Trexmaster12
@Trexmaster12 5 жыл бұрын
Dr Butterfield, if Washington was worried about political parties splintering the United States, what other practical form of representative democracy did he thought of? At this point of time, talking about democracy automatically means talking about political parties.
@johnweber4577
@johnweber4577 4 жыл бұрын
Idealistic perhaps, but he hoped that people would vote for individuals on account of their own ideas rather than creating political tribes with almost unshakable in-group preference taking precedence instead.
@SouthernRebels94
@SouthernRebels94 Жыл бұрын
Washington hated all forms of democracy and believed democracy had no place in America that is why Washington and the other founding fathers placed America as a federalist constitutional republic , and the founding fathers placed in the constitution that America was to be based on the republic values.
@metalrocker627
@metalrocker627 15 күн бұрын
He was a Federalist.
@bobbyadams8889
@bobbyadams8889 3 жыл бұрын
And he was 100% right
@tailsprowerfan2729
@tailsprowerfan2729 Жыл бұрын
He would hate both even 3rd party’s
@zachstuder8081
@zachstuder8081 2 жыл бұрын
I'll never vote 🤷
@IceFalcon38
@IceFalcon38 Жыл бұрын
Ok
@nadeemamode
@nadeemamode 8 ай бұрын
At the time there were federalist vs imperialist. Once independence was declared, they had to find a different way to split opinion 🙂🙃
@idontgiveafaboutyou
@idontgiveafaboutyou 5 жыл бұрын
Oh god no
@Azbackyardbirdfeeder
@Azbackyardbirdfeeder Жыл бұрын
Niether.. he was begrudgingly a Federalist?
@ussev8135
@ussev8135 3 жыл бұрын
*He was an Independent that was also a Libertarian.*
@jordansbear
@jordansbear 3 жыл бұрын
Man I wish that the runner-up became VPOTUS. Things would be so much better even with a two party system.
@MrFatality2000
@MrFatality2000 4 жыл бұрын
John Tyler
@m.whitmore1974
@m.whitmore1974 4 жыл бұрын
Explain again about the 12amendment and the way it was with President and Vice President parties
@NathanD7295
@NathanD7295 3 жыл бұрын
He was the son of the republic
@Idahoguy10157
@Idahoguy10157 3 жыл бұрын
Washington was a military man. Armies aren’t supposed to have political factions. One commander
@EuropeanQoheleth
@EuropeanQoheleth 3 жыл бұрын
Well he could hardly have been a Democrat since that party didn't exist yet.
@danpierce8862
@danpierce8862 Ай бұрын
The main reason why he is not technically a member of a political party is because the politics were catering to him, not the other way around like with todays politicians. The parties are an appeal to Washington.
@TheKrouton
@TheKrouton Жыл бұрын
This is absurd. While George Washington was weary of factionalism, he was clearly sympathetic towards the Federalists. It's easy to argue for unity when you favor the party "in power", so to speak. It is inevitable that coalitions will form in Republics because at any point in their history a "great debate" is taking place in which the issues of the time are resolved, often over the time of decades. To argue for an alternative is to argue for a one-party system, and even one-party systems have some degree of factionalism.
@michaelhenault1444
@michaelhenault1444 Ай бұрын
Federalist of course.
@HistoricalExplanation
@HistoricalExplanation Жыл бұрын
Correct, some presidents were actually good but I've seen a lot of people refusing to learn about them because of there political party.
@Epsilonsama
@Epsilonsama Жыл бұрын
He was a Federalist. His running mate if you will John Adams was a Federalist. His second in command Alexander Hamilton was a Federalist. After his second term he campaigned for Federalists in Virginia and he was waiting for a Military Post under a Federalist goverment spearheaded by Hamilton. This idea that he was independent is a myth. When he said he was against Partisan politics he meant against the Jeffersonian Republicans.
@ednakelley814
@ednakelley814 Жыл бұрын
Washington warned about having parties (factions) yet he pretty much went along with the polices of the Federalists. So, basiclly Washington was a federalist.
@glenpuffit8662
@glenpuffit8662 3 жыл бұрын
There should be no partys just two people and you have to decide who to vote for not just sitting there being clueless and voting blindly for one party or another.
@user-yf1uo5qw2v
@user-yf1uo5qw2v 3 жыл бұрын
He was No Have Party.
@fastsetinthewest
@fastsetinthewest 5 жыл бұрын
I'm laughing at your next video. Eaglegards 🦅...
@johnsmith6368
@johnsmith6368 3 жыл бұрын
I promise you he wasn't a democrat of today! We wouldn't be here right now if he was!
@Mamjam22
@Mamjam22 Жыл бұрын
He was Independent. Political parties are garbage
@derekgoncz7970
@derekgoncz7970 Жыл бұрын
GW!
@Airland_combat
@Airland_combat 3 жыл бұрын
Commenting before watching this, he was against political parties. But, what I'd like to know is what he'd think of President Trump. Not, how he views the parties really. Many people like hollywood celebrities and left wing politics view the founding fathers as biased for them and right wing politics state that they would be for him. But, what about a serious perspective?
@SouthernRebels94
@SouthernRebels94 Жыл бұрын
Our founding fathers would of loved Trump because Trump stayed true to our constitution following the constitution by key. And Trump's values was the same values our founding fathers caught for. As our founding fathers values stems from the republic values, one knows this because our founding fathers was obsess with the Roman government and the founders used the Roman government system to build our system off of. As well our founders has mentioned many times on how much they had great hatred for democracy and warned us to never embrace democracy but to stay far away from democracy as democracy creates dictators and breeds Communism and they so inorder to keep democracy values out of the country they added in the constitution that America government was to follow the republic values only.
@depressedphilosopherbitch7581
@depressedphilosopherbitch7581 Жыл бұрын
Interesting question.
@Supernimo735
@Supernimo735 Жыл бұрын
I think he was center left.
@Ariminua
@Ariminua Жыл бұрын
Washington in this respect is particularly naïve. Even if he himself disdained political parties, he should have foreseen their inevitability in a country as large and diverse as the United States. Such was a country already had deep rooted political and philosophical disagreements among its populace. Slavery is a prime example. Even if de jure political parties were prohibited, de facto ones, like factions, were bound to develop. After all, what is more tumultuous than politics?
@calden74
@calden74 3 жыл бұрын
He was neither, leave it at that.
@Propain4eva
@Propain4eva 4 ай бұрын
He had a brain
@johnboy4025
@johnboy4025 3 жыл бұрын
He was neither!!!
@knuckletherapyserveothersf6092
@knuckletherapyserveothersf6092 10 ай бұрын
He was right
@radiantcenturyproductions7044
@radiantcenturyproductions7044 3 жыл бұрын
Also, watch - PEOPLE ARE BORN LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE on KZfaq. Very interesting.
@nightowl7261
@nightowl7261 3 ай бұрын
Liberals blame conservatives. Conservatives blame liberals. Hahahaha
@unitedstates8080
@unitedstates8080 3 жыл бұрын
Hmm Since Abraham Lincoln Is The First Republican He Is Not A Democratic He Is Independent
@isd4154
@isd4154 3 жыл бұрын
@Karim Salem learn history.
@itz.ant07
@itz.ant07 4 жыл бұрын
He was an independent president
@jeffconnolly980
@jeffconnolly980 Жыл бұрын
The republicans party was not founded in Washington time. Republicans party was founded in 1854
@briangibson3825
@briangibson3825 3 жыл бұрын
He was a slave owner
@larrylishman6038
@larrylishman6038 5 жыл бұрын
This is wrong! Washington, along with Adams was a member of the Federalist Party. Jefferson and Madison were of the then Democratic party that changed later. Hamilton wrote the farewell speech for Washington. It is true that Jefferson hated the English, and preferred the French because of their war support. Hamilton preferred the English for trade and commerce.The French revolution was beginning and Lafayette, fled to Belgium where he was imprisoned for several years.
@mountvernon
@mountvernon 5 жыл бұрын
Washington was aligned in most of the beliefs of the Federalist Party but he never was an official member. John Adams was the only president who officially belonged to the Federalist Party.
@lilianafox7401
@lilianafox7401 4 жыл бұрын
He was independent.
@nebular555
@nebular555 5 жыл бұрын
Dem of course
@nebular555
@nebular555 4 жыл бұрын
@@marshalisepic5062 He is the father of DemoRats, he was for slavery, he had many shady stories. Lincoln is the father of Republicans.
@nebular555
@nebular555 4 жыл бұрын
@@marshalisepic5062 DemoRats? Hell no, see what they are doing right now.
@iceblacktempestrv6426
@iceblacktempestrv6426 4 жыл бұрын
静好岁月 I feel like Washington did what he did out of his own convictions and beliefs rather than because he attached himself to a party. We can all assess the character that he is and everything he did right or wrong, but parties is something that he was truly averse to.
@jaebee5813
@jaebee5813 5 жыл бұрын
He was a federalist
@mountvernon
@mountvernon 5 жыл бұрын
Washington's political leanings were most closely aligned to the Federalist Party but he never officially joined. John Adams was the only U.S. president that was a member of the Federalist Party.
@johnweber4577
@johnweber4577 4 жыл бұрын
George Washington's Mount Vernon He wasn’t a member of the Federalist Party, but his ideology could probably be labeled as Federalism.
@MelkorTolkien
@MelkorTolkien 4 жыл бұрын
@@johnweber4577 Which still means that he was against the Democratic-Republican party which would later split into the two parties we have today. I stand by Washington. 👍
@johnweber4577
@johnweber4577 4 жыл бұрын
Melkor Tolkien I feel like Lincoln and the OG Republicans, well not counting the Jeffersonians who technically had the name first of course, were worthy heirs to the Founding Federalists, but ultimately I’d agree that today both parties have become too populist and sectional for Washington’s approval. He wouldn’t be a States’ Rights Activist or a Social Justice Warrior, that’s for sure.
@Yod12
@Yod12 3 жыл бұрын
Interesting. I never heard such harsh division, animosity, and extreme beligerance within the United States gov't until Trump started this mindless rhetoric.
@SeptemberAdam
@SeptemberAdam Жыл бұрын
He was definitely Republican! All the Rebels were back in the American Revolution War.
@ElectroIsMyReligion
@ElectroIsMyReligion 9 ай бұрын
Hell no
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