Tuesday, February 27
Göteborg, Sweden
DA WESTERN SWEDEN FEBRUARY AFTERWORK in GÖTEBORG
The Ideological History of the Democratic Party
With Rick Wicks
Join Rick Wicks for the February 27 Afterwork at John Scott's Linné in Göteborg at 18:00 as he leads a lively discussion about the convoluted ideological history of the Democratic Party and how it relates to where we are and what we do next. We will consider how we got from:
- Thomas Jefferson's anti-Federalist "Democratic Republican Party" which represented "middling people" against the patriarchal paternalistic elites who had spearheaded adoption of the Constitution;
- to Andrew Jackson's Democratic Party, which - despite Jackson's opposition to *nullification" - in subsequent decades represented the Slave Power and "states rights" before the Civil War, and repression of Blacks after Reconstruction;
- to populists with William Jennings Bryan who realized that a strong central government was needed to fight powerful economic actors;
- to Woodrow Wilson who, though a southern racist, believed a strong central government was needed to manage a modern economy;
- to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and the birth of the modern welfare state (such as it is) in the U.S.A.;
- to JFK and LBJ and the focus on civil rights/minority rights;
- to Biden's emphasis again on growth for the working class including whites who've been left out, even in "red states"?
If you wish, you are encouraged to listen to a podcast on this topic from the National Constitution Center.
https://constitutioncenter.org/news-debate/podcasts/a-constitutional-history-of-the-democratic-party
Grab a drink and/or something to eat on your way up to the conference room on the 2nd floor and join us for a spirited discussion and democratic camaraderie.
WHEN
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 06:00 PM Stockholm Time
WHERE
John Scott's Linnégatan
Linnégatan 38
Göteborg 413 04
Sweden
Google map and directions
CONTACT
Diane Larsson
[email protected]