The Republican Party is the only classically “Liberal” Party in the US. The Democrat Party began in 1828 as a consolidated path to power through corruption, and slowly was taken over by those also interested in destruction of the Constitution: Marxists and their sympathizers. The Democrat Party was NEVER loyal to the Constitution.

The closest thing to a party loyal to the Constitution is the Libertarian Party, although they are dangerously lacking in understanding as well of why Constitutional principles are necessary to preserve the rights of Americans. Libertarians would rather repeat the exercises the Continental Congress went through to determine what a minimum, limited government should be to effectively protect the rights of Americans. They would also cripple the Constitution until they realized that the resulting loss of rights that happen in more anarchy actually defeats their intentions…which might make them Republicans in the end.

But that is debatable. Libertarians and Republicans are the only two viable parties arguably loyal to the Constitution. Democrats are treasonous by intent and always have been, and should be prosecuted.

@TimTuolomne Too true. But the lies of the Democrap party did tend to attract liberal thinkers and the GOP was taken over by corporate collectivists until Reagan and later Trump reawakened the populists. Now the liberals are all becoming Republican and the conservatives and corporate collectivists are whining about it.

@FuzzyMarineVet Conservatives are correctly called those who wish to preserve the Constitution.

Some called conservatives by the dupes of Marxists and their sympathizers, are actually also Marxists - “straw” people hiding in the Republican Party and willing to promote the military-industrial complex for control of the population. They have much in common with Klaus Schwab, and are not classical “Liberals.”

Republicans which honor the purpose of the founding of the Party by Lincoln in 1854, are defenders of the rights of individuals, as protected by the original Constitution. They are classical “Liberals,” and the Democrats lie to claim Democrats are “liberals.”

Democrats look so bad next to actual Republicans that they had no choice but to slander Republicans with accusations of doing what Democrats actually do, or instantly disappear from history. Democrats wore white hoods when they founded the KKK, to hide their participation, and blame it on Republicans.

Democrat voters who did not want to admit being fooled by their own party were only too happy to believe the lie, and that continues today, including election fraud.

Anyone who believes the Democrat propaganda has also been fooled, and would do well to look up Democrat history in an independent source.

@TimTuolomne These false conservatives are the ones I label corporate collectivists. They use Marx's definition of capitalism to extract real wealth from those who earn it and amass huge power with the goal of subjugating the masses. Free enterprise is the greatest system of economic exchange ever devised in history. The capitalist model designed by Marx takes advantage of the openness of free enterprise to subvert it into collectivism. I believe we need to place checks and balances upon the marketplace much as the drafters of the Constitution of the United States placed checks and balances upon the government, to protect the people from those who would abuse their good will to do them harm.

@FuzzyMarineVet I can't agree. Checks and balances converts a free market into a central planned market. You will not be able to stop it as soon as we get on that slippery slope.

Under the original Constitution, and respect for it in Congress and the States, we, the People would have already reigned in excessively powerful corporations with the Commerce Clause, which was basically killed by FDR in 1942. Without it, the government was powerless to prosecute Microsoft, and many others now.

And it would have exposed government blank checks to defense contractors. That is why Marxists targeted the Commerce Clause first, and why Eisenhower was concerned about the military-industrial complex.

@TimTuolomne How do you make the leap from checks and balances to central planning. If I didn't know who you are I would suspect you were leftist by making that illogical jump. Think it through. That's like calling the Constitution of the United States an authoritarian dictatorship. It doesn't fit. Checks on corporate conglomeration reduces the temptation to collectivize the marketplace and subvert it while subjugating all competition.

@FuzzyMarineVet We may not see the free market the same way. I just know that as soon as you mess with the free market, it is no longer free. And I agree that the Commerce cause in the original Constitution has provision for addressing dangers to the free market in the form of aggressive conglomerates. I don't mind if you see that as a point of view divergent from yours.