The irony is delicious that the "advocate" of the common man, Jefferson, was a TRUE aristocrat while the "shill" for the plutocracy, Hamilton, was entirely self-made, an illegitimate orphan from the islands without influential friends or sources of power outside his own brain.
You earlier mentioned you were from a rural area, if you were from a big city you might not preceive the corruption of the big cities machines so benignly. Particularly when they develop election theft to a high degree. Without those machines the Party of Treason would be a mere, unpleasant memory. And the US would be much more united and stronger thereby.
Hamilton made his bones in the Revolution as an officer under Washington. From that point forward, it would not have mattered if his mother had been an early Sidney Biddle Barrows, Jane Fonda, Lucifer's girlfriend or a space alien from the planet Pluto, he had Washington as a very close and supportive and influential friend and many more alliance assets than Washington and, in the thankfully brief Federalist America, it did not get any better than that in terms of influential friends.
I could say that Hamilton was therefore an aristocrat wannabe but that would be unfair. He earned his aristocracy in a rare historical era whatever his ancestry. That did not mean that he was right in ruthlessly favoring vested financial interests against the nation's population as a whole. Recognizing that, the nation returned the favor by destroying Hamilton's Federalist Party after the last straw which was the Alien and Sedition Acts. Would that the public could have yanked Chief Injustice Marshall off the bench and summarily hanged, drawn and quartered him.
It is quite a stretch to blame Jefferson, the apostle of a permanent yeoman farmer America with the Chicago Demonrat Machine, its cemetary election rallies, its votes of the everliving dead techniques. Easier to imagine is that Hamilton in his advocacy of an elected lifetime king was an enemy of the expression of democratic will through the mechanism of a democratic republic, restrained by the chains rightfully imposed by the Bill of Rights.
Still easier is to suggest that you study the players and purposes of the Mount Vernon Conference and the Annapolis Conference, their motives, and their successful advocacy of the bloodless coup by which the Articles of Confederation (by its terms amendable only by UNANIMOUS vote of the states) was illegally replaced by the current constitution. Was that treason?????
There's much more irony than that. Despite the fact that modern FDR liberals' use of government is based on Hamiltonian principals (federal supremacy, loose construction, implied powers), they nevertheless hate Hamilton and invoke Jefferson ("that government that governs best governs least") constantly. There are plenty of neo-Confederates who consider FDR simply Hamilton reborn, yet it was Jefferson he invoked as his political idol and the guardian angel of the New Deal.
Another thing I've noticed is that, despite their own statist and centralist tendencies, European style rightwingers nevertheless seem to prefer Jefferson to Hamilton, perhaps because Jefferson was a manorial lord and Hamilton was associated with "the money power."
You earlier mentioned you were from a rural area, if you were from a big city you might not preceive the corruption of the big cities machines so benignly. Particularly when they develop election theft to a high degree. Without those machines the Party of Treason would be a mere, unpleasant memory. And the US would be much more united and stronger thereby.
I don't have a "benign" view of big city machine politics. I simply agree with Black Elk that Boss Tweed wasn't using his power to give us "gay marriage." There is no doubt that old school Democrat machine politics is a very important resource for the Left today.