I would be interested in learning what the parallels are.
Carolyn
“I would be interested in learning what the parallels are.”
Sure.
As a nation we are at least as divided idealogically as we were in 1860 (in 1860 the main issue was economics, and it was a very destablizing divide). Today the main division is based along the fault lines of left and right: We have been tending leftwards towards full socialism for a while now; with the Dims controlling Congress and the MSM so fully in the tank for a marxist presidential candidate, and the discourse arising to a fever pitch, we are almost to the point of outright violence. The left is calling for wholesale redistribution of wealth, with the American middle class to bear the brunt of that redistribution. The family as an institution has been denigrated and marginalized to the point it no longer has the right to determine its own direction, and it has all but lost its right to influence and raise their children in the way they feel is best: The raising of America’s children has now been usurped by the government, and that was intentional on the government’s part. Our public schools have become madrassas of political correctness and multiculturalism, both to the detriment of American culture and society. We have reached the point where the obscene and perverted and uncopnscionable are praised as progressive and “the new order.” We have pretty much lost most of the freedoms our founding fathers secured for us. You know something? Our founding fathers went to war over far less tyranny than what we suffer under today. I know an awful lot of people who have had enough of the moral and social decay and political corruption and all-out assault on decency, the villification of the family, the all-but outlawing of faith (except for the “new” religion of fascist environmentalism), ad nauseum. Just ask yourself: Are you more free than your parents were? Depending on your age, are you more free today than yhou were when you were 21? Are you confident that your children will have a future steeped in freedom and individual choice to bgecome what they want to become by their own sweat and ambition; or do you see a future for your children that relegates them to the back of the line so that an unqualified and militant member of a politically protected class can take his or her place, but at your expense?
I can go on and on. Don’t get me started.