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Created Date: 11-Mar-2019

Elected Control by Political Party in the United States since the 1960s

Last updated: 31-Oct-2022

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1 Liberalism Will Ultimately Always Win 2 Corruption is Impossible to be Eliminated in Democratic Governments
3 Democrats Are Primarily in Power 4 What People of Each Political Party Believe
5 Democrat's Biggest Problem 6 At A High Level
7 Summary Data Showing Democrat Control 8 Detailed Data Showing Democrat Control

Liberalism Will Ultimately Always Win in Politics

In most likely all of the Democratic style governmental countries, the Political Party which allies itself with liberal philosophies will always be the controlling and winning elected Political Party over a period of time.  As the scriptures and so many commonly known expressions such as "power corrupts absolutely" inform us, the problem with anyone of us taking a liberal standpoint allows us to be open to eventually having sinful lifestyles and viewpoints when allowing and believing there is:

The United States is an example of this observed Political Party problem, with the imbalance of power, because of Liberalism.  Liberalism is defined by WIKI and other encyclopedia types of definitions as having many positive attributes, where Conservatism also has many positive attributes.  The wrongful side of liberalism is:

Power and winning elections are being obtained through deception in both United States Political Parties, but the Political Party that allied itself with Liberalism have the easiest deception tools, methods and emissaries to be utilized. 

  1. Liberal financial spending will gain favorable public approval. 
  2. Allying perceived (and event fraudulent) victims will have people believing a Political Party cares for people and the other Political Parties does not. 
  3. Controlling the content most of the publicized news, by all the possible methods for disseminate information, benefits only Political Party.  It doesn't matter if the content is incorrect.   Nazis propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels said "if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth."

Everyone of us will be gravitated to listen to an informational news story that shows a victim.  We all want justice (sometimes revenge) for victims we hear about in the news.  This fundamental aspect of human-nature is additionally relied upon by the entertainment industry of movies, television shows, literature and magazines as no one wants to watch a movie where the bad people win. 

While wonderful stories, that have no victims or injustice, can gain people's attention, the primary reason people spend time to listen and watch any media presentation regarding news is an interest in what happened and was there justice.   Injustice and problems can also be invented as a means of distraction for the public to not observe real problems and injustice.

In the United States, which primarily has a two party political party structure consisting of Democrats and Republicans, it does not matter what the Republican Party pledges and tries to accomplish because the Democrat Party, since at least the 1960s, have dominated control and influence in the news media and entertainment media.  By controlling directly and indirectly will have the greatest ability to influence voters.  Some well-known and easily observed deception and omission points:

  1. Control and Own the News Informational Sources:  (Most people have the abilities to recognize bias news reporting.)
    (a) Local television news, where the broadcast is often reading from a teleprompter, have exactly the same information that other television news media broadcasting outlets are reading.  The teleprompter information is provided by companies that sell their informational and broadcast-ready news information.  Local television news media outlets do not have the financial ability to have paid staff working to research, write and organize all of the national and local news informational stories.  Print media outlets such as magazine, newspapers and internet websites utilize the same information news companies.
    (b) National television news media outlets, that do have financial resources, often utilize the same news information with a type-of repackaging.  A simple and minor proof example is a national media outlet will reprint, redisplay and rebroadcast information about an event happening somewhere that was originally investigated somewhere else.
    (While this topic is not listing the ownership and sources of news information being disseminated, bias information is easily discerned when only one side of a topic is presented.  This has been seen for decades.)
  2. Allies in the Entertainment Industry: The entertainment industry, knowing how to gain people for viewing, when dealing with human personalities of primary characters, will almost involve characters with complex moral problems to get viewers interest.  Additionally, conservative viewpoints are routinely made to be target of jokes or to be ridiculed in a very disproportionately scale compared to liberal viewpoints.
    (a) The financial gains, in the entertainment industry, has afforded many participants the ability to literally enjoy a lifestyle of abundance which often tempts these people into excess sinful pleasures addictions with extreme arrogance of self-righteousness that will openly speak in public about conservative ideas of accountability and acting righteously.
    (b) The entertainment movies and television industry often use their shows as a podium to popularize their opinions that too often are trying exonerate themselves from lifestyles that are openly against the scriptures along with the attempts to humilate conservative ideas of accountability and acting righteously. 

Corruption is Impossible to be Eliminated in Democratic Governments

Note: It is this author's opinion and a partial reworded excerpt from the Political Party Allegiance Topic:
  1. That no matter what is said publicly by a Politician in speeches or seen in the Media concerning any person from any Political Party, it is impossible for Politicians to not eventually become corrupted, willingly or unwillingly.   Choosing otherwise means the Politician will be stopped during the election or re-election process, by different Entities In Power (EIP).  These EIP collectively, while different from one-another and compete with one another, are control everything, so that a Politician has to ally themselves with one or more of them.
    (a) A Politician has a choice to accept financial compensation, outside of their salary, for doing actions for specific power groups that are behind the scenes, or by not accepting, the Politician becomes a target to be replaced.
    (b) The higher the public office for the Politician, there are vulnerabilities that will be exploited concerning any type of unethical and immoral proclivity that can be used as part of a type of political blackmail that is done in what is called a dossier.  J Edgar Hoover is best known in history for creating dossiers on political enemies.
    (c) At the worst level, there has been sporadic cases of Politicians and assistants to Politicians, having their lives ended by mysterious and sudden medical conditions that appear ordinary on the surface, when previous medical checkups showed no signs.
  2. It has become impossible for anyone of any Political Party to do anything to stop the corruption that has taken over the positions of office from the local to the federal level.   One Political Party, may appear to be more corrupt, from what is partially seen and heard from the Media, but all Politicians serve different power groups, where the power groups hold no political party allegiance, as their goals are financial and power gains. 
  3. Unfortunately, most of the Media is also completely corrupted, with exception of small independent sources, because the people in power behind the scenes, learned multiple decades ago that by purchasing and controlling the Media, then this allowed the process of misinformation to shape people's opinions. The tools are using half-truths, omissions, false wording, and out right deception. 
    (a) Do a search on YouTube and there are numerous examples of TV Stations all repeating the same scripted dialogues.

Democrats Are Primarily in Power

This information was summarized from the following links based on 2018 data which was primarily taken from these links:

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided_government_in_the_United_States
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_U.S._states

What the data shows is the Democrat Party has always been in control since 1961 for the majority of the time at the Federal and State Levels.  In the overwhelming majority of the biggest and influential cities in the USA, at the city levels in positions of mayor and council persons, there are cities that Democrats have been 100% in control since the 1960s. 

With this power, the Democrat Party should have already accomplished great things, but they have:

  1. Not brought back American manufacturing companies from foreign countries like China and southeast Asia. 
  2. Not stopped foreign workers in Engineering and Computer Sciences to come into the USA to be employed at very low wages to supplant American citizens along with the theft intellectual property.
  3. Not stopped the move of Pharmaceutical Development to other countries.
  4. Not stopped the ever-increasing numbers of peoples from many countries coming into the USA illegally and then given living expenses, free education and so much more.
From a purely statistical standpoint, and not taking into account philosophies of the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party can be blamed for as much as 60% to 100% of the problems not fixed in the United States based on their periods of time while being in office. 

What People of Each Political Party Believe

There has come a belief, in recent times, that the following two statements are true.  They are regarding the core mentality of a Democrat and Republican citizen:

  1. Democrat People will always believe, want and demand that other people should take care of them based on the emotional based reasoning that there are people with more financial resources, better physical abilities, ethnicity and good luck.  Therefore, the Democrat person feels it is only fair to be given financial benefits at the expense and taxation of others through the government so that everyone can have the same benefits and even luxuries in life.  The Democrat Politician knows this and therefore promises to deliver these ideals that requires higher taxation and restricting legislation.
  2. Republican People will always believe, want and desire that everyone participates in the process of improving their own lives by working for themselves and also to never rely upon and receive anything that was not earned.  Therefore, the Republican person finds it very objectionable to see anyone getting any benefits that was not earned.  The Republican Politician knows this and therefore promises to relieve tax burdens and guarantee accountability.  When Republican Politicians introduce legislation to cut taxes and free up business to operate, then Democrats come out in force in the Media to state everything is to benefit the rich.

The Pareto principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, has many facets.  In business journals there has been the reciprocal additional definition given when dealing with a company team of workers that can also apply to sports teams:

This 80/20 rule can be applied to people in view of their preferred political party.  It implies that the majority of people will gravitate and fall into the category of the Democrat philosophies because of the belief that they will be taken care of by the government.  This is why the Democrat Party will always be the winning political party.

Democrat's Biggest Problem

Read the topic on Conundrum of Socialism in the United States before continuing. 

There are no rural, inner-city or sparsely populated areas of the United States where poverty, crime and moral-decay is rampant that are Republican controlled and have a majority of Republican identifying citizens.  All the areas that have rampant poverty, crime and moral-decay are 100% Democrat controlled areas that have been that way for decades since the 1960s, where after 60 years there should have been an improvement that cannot be blamed on Republicans. 

At A High Level

As just noted above, the Democrat Party has predominately contained an edge by having the most voters.  With this power, they have accomplished some good things at the Federal Level along with a few areas at the State Level.

  1. In 1930s, created the New Deal to create jobs by Governmental Works programs, stabilizing of farm prices, electricity to rural communities.
  2. In 1935 crated the Social Security Act to provide assistance to retirees, unemployed people, widows and orphans.
  3. In 1944, signed the GI Bill to help veterans returning from WWII to get a jump start on mortgages, business, tuition and more
  4. In 1964, signed the Civil Rights Act?
  5. Since the 1960s, to name a few areas: there has been a great deal of legislation to protect the environment, equal access for the handicapped to all buildings and parking, promote equality for people with alternate lifestyles, protection for animals and minimal wage guarantees.

At a very high level, the Republican Party has accomplished some great things at the Federal, State, City and County areas.  Many people, when being honest, would point out that the Republican Party has done far more than the Democrats despite the lack of times in power.

  1. The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 under President Abraham Lincoln.
  2. Gave the right to vote to women in 1872.
  3. Construction of the Panama Canal in 1904
  4. Elected the first woman to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916.
  5. Construction of the Hover Dam in 1928
  6. Construction of the Interstate Highway System in 1956
  7. Desegregating Public Schools in 1957 with protection issued by Dwight Eisenhower.
  8. The Civil Rights Act of 1960 under Dwight Eisenhower.
  9. President Regan Tax Cuts of 1981.
  10. President Regan works and succeeds in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  11. Republican Congress balances the budget in 1998-2001.

Summary Data Showing Democrat Control

  Control Percentage by Political Party  
  Years 1960 through Year 2019  
  State Legislation Governorships Federal Total Control Federal Majority Control  
Democrat 60.53% 53.19% 26.67% 60.00% <-Winner
Republican 34.21% 44.68% 10.00% 40.00%  
Split/Tie 5.26% n/a n/a n/a  
           
  Control in the United States      
Democrat 57.91% <-Winner      
Republican 39.63%        

Detailed Data Showing Democrat Control

Split means inconclusive control of one party.

  State Legislations controlled      
# Year Democrat Republican Split   Democrat Republican
1 1960 27 15 6   1  
2 1962 25 17 6   1  
3 1964 32 6 10   1  
4 1966 23 16 9   1  
5 1968 20 20 8      
6 1970 23 16 9   1  
7 1972 26 16 7   1  
8 1974 37 4 8   1  
9 1976 35 4 10   1  
10 1978 31 11 7   1  
11 1980 29 15 5   1  
12 1982 34 11 4   1  
13 1984 26 11 12   1  
14 1986 28 9 12   1  
15 1988 29 8 12   1  
16 1990 30 6 13   1  
17 1992 25 8 16   1  
18 1994 18 19 12     1
19 1996 20 18 11   1  
20 1998 20 17 12   1  
21 2000 16 18 15     1
22 2002 18 17 14   1  
23 2003 16 21 12     1
24 2004 17 21 11     1
25 2005 20 20 9      
26 2007 24 16 9   1  
27 2008 23 15 12   1  
28 2009 27 15 8   1  
29 2010 27 15 8   1  
30 2011 15 27 8     1
31 2012 15 29 6     1
32 2013 17 28 5     1
33 2014 17 28 5     1
34 2015 11 31 8     1
35 2016 11 31 8     1
36 2017 12 32 6     1
37 2018 13 32 5     1
38 2019 19 29 2     1
               
            Democrat Republican
            23 13
  State Legislation Control Democrat 60.53%      
      Republican 34.21%      
      Even/Tie 5.26%      

 

  Governorships controlled      
# Year Democrat Republican Independent   Democrat Republican
1 1960 34 16     1  
2 1962 34 16     1  
3 1964 33 17     1  
4 1966 25 25        
5 1967 24 26       1
6 1968 19 31       1
7 1969 18 32       1
8 1970 29 21     1  
9 1971 30 20     1  
10 1972 31 19     1  
11 1973 32 18     1  
12 1974 36 13 1   1  
13 1976 37 12 1   1  
14 1978 32 18     1  
15 1979 31 19     1  
16 1980 27 23     1  
17 1982 34 16     1  
18 1983 35 15     1  
19 1984 34 16     1  
20 1986 26 24     1  
21 1988 28 22     1  
22 1989 29 21     1  
23 1990 28 20 2   1  
24 1992 30 18 2   1  
25 1993 29 19 2   1  
26 1994 19 30 1     1
27 1995 18 31 1     1
28 1996 17 32 1     1
29 1998 17 31 2     1
30 1999 18 30 2     1
31 2000 19 29 2     1
32 2001 21 27 2     1
33 2002 24 26       1
34 2004 22 28       1
35 2006 28 22     1  
36 2008 29 21     1  
37 2009 26 24     1  
38 2010 26 23 1   1  
39 2011 20 29 1     1
40 2012 20 29 1     1
41 2013 20 30       1
42 2014 21 29       1
43 2015 18 31 1     1
44 2016 18 31 1     1
45 2017 15 34 1     1
46 2018 16 33 1     1
47 2019 23 27       1
               
            Democrat Republican
            25 21
  Governorship Control Democrat 53.19%      
      Republican 44.68%      

 

  USA Presidency, Senate and Congress Control   Total Control     Majority Control
# Year President Senate House   Democrat Republican     Democrat Republican
1 1961–1963 D D D   1       1  
2 1963–1965 D D D   1       1  
3 1965–1967 D D D   1       1  
4 1967–1969 D D D   1       1  
5 1969-1971 R D D           1  
6 1971-1973 R D D           1  
7 1973-1975 R D D           1  
8 1975-1977 R D D           1  
9 1977–1979 D D D   1       1  
10 1979–1981 D D D   1       1  
11 1981-1983 R R D             1
12 1983-1985 R R D             1
13 1985-1987 R R D             1
14 1987-1989 R D D           1  
15 1989-1991 R D D           1  
16 1991-1993 R D D           1  
17 1993–1995 D D D   1       1  
18 1995-1997 D R R             1
19 1997-1999 D R R             1
20 1999-2001 D R R             1
21 2001-2003 R D R             1
22 2003–2005 R R R     1       1
23 2005–2007 R R R     1       1
24 2007-2009 R D D           1  
25 2009–2011 D D D   1       1  
26 2011-2013 D D R           1  
27 2013-2015 D D R           1  
28 2015-2017 D R R             1
29 2017-2019 R R R     1       1
30 2019-2021 R R D             1
                       
            Democrat Republican     Democrat Republican
  Total Control at Federal Level   8 3     18 12
                       
                       
  Total Federal Control Democrat 26.67%              
      Republican 10.00%              
                       
  Majority Federal Control Democrat 60.00%              
      Republican 40.00%              
 

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