[GOPsterinMA]

“The USA is fatally polarized. We are two countries sharing the same space...”

Yes. Some of us have been saying that for a while.

I suspect “the feeling” in the air today is about the same as what “the feeling” in the air was in 1859. We know what happened in 1861.

[alstewartfan]

The Communist Manifesto is gaining ground on the Constitution daily.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘I suspect “the feeling” in the air today is about the same as what “the feeling” in the air was in 1859. We know what happened in 1861.”

I compare it more to the Roman Republic around 50 BC, while Julius Caesar was conquering Gaul, preparing to return to Rome. Some years after my namesake’s rule - (see my homepage). The American Civil War was almost completely about sectional differences.

[hotshu]

“I suspect “the feeling” in the air today is about the same as what “the feeling” in the air was in 1859. We know what happened in 1861.”

Welcome to the old South!