@@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
@@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
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!
@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.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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
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.
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 RUclips ("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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Washington warned about having parties (factions) yet he pretty much went along with the polices of the Federalists. So, basiclly Washington was a federalist.
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.
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?
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?
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.
nah you're giving conservatives too much credit. Liberals and Democrats blame conservatives. Independents blame/ deal with and Republicans deal with conservatives. Conservatives hide in a corner and blame everyone else
Before you assume, I'm republican and grew up with a more conservative family. I align with most of their views, I'm in Business Admin/ political science.
@gaddy2157 The point is, both/all political parties are blaming each other. It's never their fault. Just point the fingers at somebody else. Pathetic. I don't affiliate with any political parties or political idealogies.
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.
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.
Interesting. I never heard such harsh division, animosity, and extreme beligerance within the United States gov't until Trump started this mindless rhetoric.
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.
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 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. 👍
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.
He was an American.
More like European
@@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
He wasn't just an American. George Washington was a GREAT AMERICAN.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@chadwickwhite6107 he was literally a British officer
@@Creativity06 wasn’t he a Virginian though?
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.
Yep that's why I'm now a non voter. I hate both parties especially what happened this year
@@lilianafox7401 lmao
@@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
@@Nebulasecura that’s mean china going to invade asian countries then europe
We must take our rightful place as the boss over our States. Join your state Assemblies
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!
Those things were already happening and have happened since human history began
George is rolling in his grave.
Damn straight, especially here in 2020, with how the democrats in particular are acting, although both parties are pretty bad nowadays.
@MrQ 2004 pretty much.
@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.
@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.
@@AlonzoMarquisGraychipmonk they went more and more extreme in steps and the liberals have just as many conspiracies against the republicans
Short Answer: Neither
He opposed the 2 Party system and said it would tear the country apart.
and the system does what he said
The government does not need to be defined as Democratic or Republican to function.
Political parties should be banned honestly
They've gotten extremely out of hand.
dems def. did the most damage
Washington felt political parties were an "evil to be avoided". Why didn't they listen.
Why wasn't George Washington a member of a political party? Because he's smart and wise enough not to. That's why.
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.
Read Washington's farewell speech. He clearly endorsed central government, not simply rich men having liberty.
@@jmcb5062 the war was against a corporation getting tax dollars, not against empowering central government.
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.
He wasn't A Republican or A Democrat, He was a Federalist, Just like his ally, Alexander Hamilton
Wasn't Hamilton a democratic-republican
@@lowiq224 no, he was a Federalist
@@kennyflanders8337 I thought he was federalist and then changed to a democratic Republican
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.
Hamilton was not liked by anyone with sense for his idiotic and destructive belief of money supply printing left to private banks
Good grief I miss him. We should have stayed his vision!
you miss him?
@@trotoxd6827
Guess I just gave away my age. I look pretty good for being over 200yrs old! HA!
Yea Washington and Lincoln the best
@@lilianafox7401 he owned slaves
@@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
Because political parties are not constitutional!
It definitely anticipated them, but didn’t expect them to be this big or corrupt...
Excellent, accurate, and appreciated.
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
First and best president.
Neither, he was unaffiliated because he knew through history that political parties divide and destroy nations.
Well done!
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.
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.
Remember the past but do not get stuck in it. Live for the present day. Live for the future.
Divided in promises, together in failure. Washington understood this.
I find it sad I can’t find any relatives of our forefather today. What an amazing person Washington was.
He was a independent
No he was a dependent, dependent on the American people.
No cause as he said there was not a parties until later
Independent
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
The real term was Federalist and anti-federalist or Confederate.
The anti-federalists became known as the Democratic-Republican Party.
I love my Dad George for this reason .
Debating whether the Man who wanted NO political parties in this country would be in _any party_ is ridiculous.
Washington's experience with the "True Whig" party during the Revolution probably contributed to his opinion.
He was correct, this country might as well be every man or woman for themselves
DAMN STRAIGHT GEORGE. This is why he's my favorite president.
It's a reason I'm registered as none affiliated
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.
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 RUclips ("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!
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
Well he was right. Here we are.. again
Imagine they kept it where the runner up became the vice president.
What a great man.
He was Independent. Political parties are garbage
And he was 100% right
He was a Federalist.
I'll never vote 🤷
Ok
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.
I promise you he wasn't a democrat of today! We wouldn't be here right now if he was!
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.
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.
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.
At the time there were federalist vs imperialist. Once independence was declared, they had to find a different way to split opinion 🙂🙃
Washington was a military man. Armies aren’t supposed to have political factions. One commander
He would hate both even 3rd party’s
Niether.. he was begrudgingly a Federalist?
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.
He was the son of the republic
Well he could hardly have been a Democrat since that party didn't exist yet.
Federalist of course.
Washington warned about having parties (factions) yet he pretty much went along with the polices of the Federalists. So, basiclly Washington was a federalist.
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.
He was No Have Party.
*He was an Independent that was also a Libertarian.*
Man I wish that the runner-up became VPOTUS. Things would be so much better even with a two party system.
Correct, some presidents were actually good but I've seen a lot of people refusing to learn about them because of there political party.
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?
He was right
He was neither, leave it at that.
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?
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.
Interesting question.
I think he was center left.
Oh god no
Hmm Since Abraham Lincoln Is The First Republican He Is Not A Democratic He Is Independent
@Karim Salem learn history.
John Tyler
He was neither!!!
He had a brain
Explain again about the 12amendment and the way it was with President and Vice President parties
GW!
He was an independent president
The republicans party was not founded in Washington time. Republicans party was founded in 1854
Also, watch - PEOPLE ARE BORN LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE on RUclips. Very interesting.
Liberals blame conservatives.
Conservatives blame liberals.
Hahahaha
nah you're giving conservatives too much credit. Liberals and Democrats blame conservatives. Independents blame/ deal with and Republicans deal with conservatives. Conservatives hide in a corner and blame everyone else
Before you assume, I'm republican and grew up with a more conservative family. I align with most of their views, I'm in Business Admin/ political science.
@gaddy2157
The point is, both/all political parties are blaming each other. It's never their fault. Just point the fingers at somebody else. Pathetic.
I don't affiliate with any political parties or political idealogies.
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.
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.
He was a slave owner
I'm laughing at your next video. Eaglegards 🦅...
He was independent.
Interesting. I never heard such harsh division, animosity, and extreme beligerance within the United States gov't until Trump started this mindless rhetoric.
He was definitely Republican! All the Rebels were back in the American Revolution War.
Hell no
Dem of course
@@marshalisepic5062 He is the father of DemoRats, he was for slavery, he had many shady stories. Lincoln is the father of Republicans.
@@marshalisepic5062 DemoRats? Hell no, see what they are doing right now.
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.
He was a federalist
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.
George Washington's Mount Vernon He wasn’t a member of the Federalist Party, but his ideology could probably be labeled as Federalism.
@@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. 👍
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.