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No stance is deeply rooted. It is all a matter of your time scale.
Over 5,005,500,000 years we start with a gap in the galaxy and end up with recognizable people making tools.
Over 55,000 years we start with people hunting and gathering food, with tools, and end up with civilizations and religions.
Over 550 years we start with Kings launching ships to explore the globe and end up with a President launching a rocket to explore the moon.
Over 5 years we start with a President dividing the People and end with another President reuniting the northern hemisphere.
Nothing written on parchment 250 years ago is without room for reinterpretation; is so deeply rooted in history without showing its age.
So, let's start with the crux of the issues, "We the People", or those who were not property nor otherwise disenfranchised at the time.
- until 1920 - Male
- until 1840 - Propertied
- until 1863 - Free
- until 1940 - Natural-born
- until 1971 - Age 21+
- 1776 - 1943 Not Chinese
- 1776 - 1924 Not Natives
- 1787 - 1868 Not 3/5th Slaves
- 1942 - 1946 Not Japanese
- 1954 - 1973 Not Communists
- until 1967 - Not Interracial
- until 1973 - Poll-taxed
- until 2003 - Not Homosexual
- until 2012 - Not DACA (children to adults)
- until when - Not Transgender
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Epochs from oldest to most recent, the number of years preceding the present, on a semi-logarithmic scale:
- Formation of the Sun and Earth
- No Continents
- No Food
- Lots of fire
- Let’s see what happens…
- Pliocene Epoch
- Land Dividing into Continents
- Archeological History in Africa
- Australopithecus
- Homo habilis, Homo erectus
- Food good
- Fiery volcanos
- Let’s swing from the trees…
- Pleistocene Epoch
- Modern Continents
- More Archeological History in Africa
- Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
- Homo sapiens sapiens
- Hunting food that killed H. erectus
- Light my fire
- Let’s run after that…
- Holocene Epoch
- Last Ice Age
- Early History beyond Africa
- Europeans, Asians, Americans
- Tilling fields and growing food
- Cooking with fire
- Let’s take this wheel for a spin…
- God said, "Let there be light…"
- Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age
- Christians, Muslims, Jews,
- Confucians, Hindus, Buddhists
- Sharing food across continents
- Fireworks
- Let’s circle the wagons…
- Little Ice Age
- Industrial Age, Electric Age
- Pandemics and Plagues
- American History
- Food served in restaurants
- Light my nuclear fire
- Let’s take the car out for a drive…
- Global Warming
- Electronic Age, Information Age
- No Pandemic
- Modern American History
- Food ordered for take-out
- Fire me to the moon
- Let’s fly around the world…
- Presidential Meltdown
- Green Age
- Pandemic
- Post-Democracy History
- Gig workers deliver food to me
- Fire up the people
- Let’s see how far this EV can go…
- Global Meltdown
- Quantum Age
- Pandemic’s past
- Post-History history
- Food from the lab
- Fire all the bosses
- Let’s go for a walk…
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Over short and long periods of time the peoples’ perspectives evolve, understandings shift, and minds expand - though not all.
- One day's walk
- Geocentric
- Heliocentric
- Galactic
- Universe
- Multiverse
- Simulation
- Spirits
- Gods
- God
- People
- Republican
- Sovereigns
- Pantheism
- Polytheism
- Monotheism
- Spiritualism
- Atheism
- Trumpism
- Metaphysical
- Individual
- Mammal
- Animal
- Universal
- Artificial
- Extraterrestrial
- Static vs Expanding Universe
- Creation vs Evolution
- 5,000 years old vs 13 billion years old
- Bodily Humors vs Modern Medicine
- Newton vs Einstein
- Theocracy vs Democracy
- Prohibition vs Permissiveness
- Radio vs Television
- Crooners vs Rockers
- Telephone vs Mobil Phone
- Heterosexual vs Homosexual Marriage
- Progressives vs Conservatives
- Democrats vs Republicans
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Nowhere more than in politics the peoples’ perspectives evolve, often swinging between polar opposites under the same banner.
- Who: Adams / Hamilton
- Notable: First Political Party
- Notable: Dominant until 1810
- Backers: New England voters
- Backers: Pro-Business, not people
- Politics: Voters can’t pick Electors
- Politics: Men are unequal
- Economy: Spending $1,000,000
- Economy: Pro-Government action
- Religion: Separation of Church / State
- Religion: Congregationalists
- Foreign: French Revolution
- Conflict: Anti-war Europe (1800)
- Conflict: Anti-war America (1812)
- Who: Webster / Clay
- Notable: Dominant until 1840s
- Notable: Merged with Republicans
- Backers: Middle-class voters
- Politics: Individual Sovereign, Meritocratic
- Politics: Anti-expansionism, no new states
- Politics: Tolerated Slavery, Solid South
- Politics: Conservatism, Preserve Culture
- Politics: Opposed Secession
- Economy: Spending $1,000,000
- Economy: Favored tariffs
- Economy: Activist economic programs
- Religion: Protestants
- Foriegn: Opium War (1839) free trade
- Conflict: Anti-Mexican War, annex Texas
1901-1972 - Socialists
- Notable: Anti-World War I
- Notable: Hellen Keller
1971-2022 - Libertarian
- Notable: Meritocratic
- Notable: Anti-fiat currency
2001-2022 - Greens
- Notable: Pro-Environment
- Notable: Pro-Grass
1965-2022 - Beach Party, write-in
- Notable: Pro-Environment
- Notable: Pro-Beer
1880-2022 - Santa Party, write-in
- Notable: Pro-Social welfare
- Notable: Pro-Snow
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- Notable: 57% of voters
- Notable: The oldest party, worldwide
- Who: Jackson / Van Buren
- Backers: White voters
- Backers: Southern voters
- Politics: Owning the Whigs
- Politics: Individual Rights
- Politics: State Sovereignty
- Politics: Tolerated Slavery
- Economy: Spending $18,000,000
- Economy: Don’t Intervene
- Religion: Catholics
- Foreign: Darwin’s journey of discovery
- Foreign: Suez Canal opens
- Conflict: Anti-Civil War, for peace
- Conflict: World War I
- Who: Wilson / Roosevelt / Truman / Kennedy
- Notable: America Ascendant, Global Dollar
- Notable: Kennedy assassinated
- Backers: City voters
- Backers: Female voters
- Backers: Black voters
- Politics: Dixiecrats (1948)
- Politics: Birth of Modern Liberals
- Economy: Spending $195,000,000
- Economy: 1929 Crash, Depression >1939
- Economy: 1st New Deal, 2nd New Deal
- Economy: Min. Wage, Social Security
- Economy: Unions, AFL, CIO, NAACP
- Social: Prohibition, Wet Democrats
- Social: Anti-Guns, Pro-Choice
- Social: Civil Rights Act (1964)
- Religion: Irish Catholics
- Conflict: World War II
- Conflict: Vietnam War, Cold War
- Who: Carter / Clinton / Obama
- Notable: Clinton scandal
- Notable: 1st Black President
- Notable: ObamaCare (2010)
- Backers: Reagan Democrats (1980)
- Backers: Hispanic voters
- Backers: Fewer Southern voters
- Economy: Spending $6,553,000,000,000
- Economy: Balanced budget (1990)
- Economy: Early rightward shift
- Economy: Early reduced welfare, unions
- Social: Roe v Wade, abortion
- Social: Anti-Guns, Pro-Choice
- Social: Same-sex marriage (2015)
- Social: Pandemic vaccination, masking
- Religion: Separate Church and State
- Foreign: Egypt and Israel peace
- Conflict: Exit from Middle East
- Conflict: Rough exit from Afghanistan
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- Notable: 43% of voters
- Notable: 2nd oldest party in America
- Who: Lincoln / Grant / Garfield / Teddy
- Notable: Dominant party
- Notable: Lincoln assassinated
- Notable: Johnson first impeached (1868)
- Backers: British and Midwest voters
- Backers: City voters
- Backers: Black voters
- Politics: End of slavery
- Politics: Strong Liberals, free speech
- Politics: Birth of Modern Conservatives
- Economy: Spending $18,000,000
- Economy: Entrepreneurs
- Economy: Low or no taxes
- Economy: Northeast economic boom
- Economy: Expand banking
- Economy: …railroads and factories
- Religion: Baptists and Methodists
- Conflict: Pro-Civil War, no slavery
- Conflict: World War I
- Who: Hoover / Eisenhower / Nixon
- Notable: Dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan
- Notable: Landed a man on the moon
- Notable: First Air Force One (Ike)
- Notable: Interstate Highway (Ike)
- Backers: Evangelical Christian voters
- Backers: Rural voters
- Backers: Southern voters
- Politics: Moving to Center
- Economy: Spending $195,000,000
- Economy: Pro-Protectionism
- Economy: Anti-New Deal, no welfare
- Economy: Pro-Business, Market Crash
- Social: Roaring 20’s
- Social: Prohibition, Dry Republicans
- Social: Pro-Guns, Anti-Choice
- Religion: Rise of the Religious right
- Conflict: Korean War, Cold War
- Who: Nixon / Reagan / Bush / Trump
- Notable: No more gold-standard
- Notable: Watergate Scandal, Nixon out
- Notable: September 11, 2001 terrorists
- Notable: Jan. 6th, 2021 insurrection
- Notable: Trump impeached twice
- Backers: Evangelical Right voters
- Politics: Reagan Democrats (1980)
- Politics: Republican Revolution (1994)
- Politics: Rise of the Tea Party
- Economy: Spending $6,553,000,000,000
- Economy: Reaganomics, triples Deficit
- Economy: Outlaw ObamaCare
- Social: Pro-Guns, Anti-Choice
- Social: Pandemic Operation Warp Speed
- Religion: Merge Church and State
- Foreign: Reagan and Gorbachev buds
- Foreign: Soviet collapse (1991)
- Foreign: Trump and Putin buds
- Conflict: Iraq, Afghanistan