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unbiased your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis welcome back to unbiased politics and to the unbiased news and legal analysis. Welcome back to Unbiased Politics and to the Unbiased University series.

In today's episode, we're talking about the evolution of political parties in American politics.

When we think of our political system, a lot of people assume that parties were kind of built

into the structure from the beginning, Democrats on one side, Republicans on the other.

But the founders actually did not design a party system at all. In fact, many of them were actively against, or I guess I should say they actively warned against political parties.

And they often call these

factions instead of parties. We'll hear that word used throughout the episode. But the reason that

they were against them is because they were worried that loyalty to a party could become stronger

than loyalty to the country. And what's kind of interesting there is that we're kind of seeing that

play out a little bit today with the extremes on both sides. But that was their concern all the way

back in the late 1700s. Despite that concern, though, almost immediately after the Constitution

was ratified, political parties began to kind of take shape anyway. And that's because arguments about how the country should function were inevitable. So, you know, people had different visions about the economy. They had different visions for the balance of power between the states and the federal government, and those divisions

ultimately create parties or factions. And it's, you know, the same today as it was then.

But those disagreements naturally led people to organize into these groups, and those groups

eventually became parties, and now here we are today. Now, one of the most important things to

keep in mind throughout this episode is that political parties are not fixed ideological institutions,

although it is kind of easy to think of them that way. In reality, they're more so coalitions.

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