[Bull Snipe]

“That war was the beginning of the end.” the end of what?

[Bulwyf]

That brought us to today and the situation we’re in.

[DiogenesLamp]

“That war was the beginning of the end.” the end of what?

The end of the system of governance which the Founders created. It was the era in which plutocrats seized control of many of the levers of governance. This is why there was so much corruption following the Civil War.