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The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States , along with the Republican Party . The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The party has the lengthiest record of continuous operation in the United States , and is one of the oldest political parties in the world. [ 4 ] Barack Obama is the 15th Democrat to hold the office of President of the United States . As of the 112th Congress following the 2010 elections , the Democratic Party currently holds a minority of seats in the House of Representatives , but holds a majority of seats in the Senate . It currently holds a minority of state governorships , as well as a minority of state legislatures .
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The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States , along with the Democratic Party . Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP (Grand Old Party), although the rival Democratic Party is older. Eighteen US presidents have been Republicans. The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S. political spectrum . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] American conservatism of the Republican Party is not wholly based upon rejection of the political ideology of liberalism , as many principles of American conservatism are based upon classical liberalism . [ 4 ] Rather the Republican Party's conservatism is largely based upon its support of classical liberal principles against the modern liberalism of the Democratic Party that is considered American liberalism in contemporary American political discourse. [ 4 ]
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Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule ) is when a government aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens. [ 2 ] Totalitarian regimes stay in political power through an all-encompassing propaganda campaign, which is disseminated through the state-controlled mass media , a single party that is often marked by political repression , personality cultism , control over the economy , regulation and restriction of speech , mass surveillance , and widespread use of terror . The concept of totalitarianism was first developed in a positive sense in the 1920s by the Italian fascists . The concept became prominent in Western anti-communist political discourse during the Cold War era in order to highlight perceived similarities between Nazi Germany and other fascist regimes on the one hand, and Soviet communism on the other. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ edit ] EtymologyJohanna [ 1 ] “Hannah” Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was a German American political theorist . She has often been described as a philosopher , although she refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theorist because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world". [ 2 ] Arendt's work deals with the nature of power , and the subjects of politics , authority , and totalitarianism . [ edit ] Biography Arendt was born into a family of secular German Jews in the city of Linden (now part of Hanover ), and grew up in Königsberg (the birthplace of Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant , renamed as Kaliningrad and annexed to the Soviet Union in 1946) and Berlin .
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