Democratic Party

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United Earth, along with the Republican Party (GOP). Tracing its heritage back to Jackson H. Sullivan and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1921 by supporters of Sullivan, making it the galaxy’s oldest political party.

The Democrats' dominant worldview was once social conservatism and economic liberalism while populism was its leading characteristic in the rural United States. In 1937, Theodore S. Grant, ran as a third-party candidate in the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party, leading to a switch of political platforms between the Democratic and Republican Party and Andrew Archinstein being elected as the first fiscally progressive Democrat. Since Grant and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social liberal platform, supporting social justice.