[Hemingway's Ghost]

I think it is uprecedented and remarkable, when these ideas finally penetrate the minds of what are mainly thinkers, and outstanding well-prepared, educated well-traveled and historically aware commentators.

Let me refine my statement, then: I don't think any of the things Prager outlined would, in and of themselves or even taken as a whole, trigger an actual civil war.

[Publius6961]

Let me refine my statement, then: I don't think any of the things Prager outlined would, in and of themselves or even taken as a whole, trigger an actual civil war.

Obviously we are in agreement, since I am calmly preparing to go to work as I type this.

But huge, gigantic, obvious highway signs are popping up around the landscape, metaphorically speaking, and we pretend we don't see them at our peril.

[archy]

Let me refine my statement, then: I don't think any of the things Prager outlined would, in and of themselves or even taken as a whole, trigger an actual civil war.

And the indicators that Chittum has listed? How 'bout them.

In my book, Chittum and Prager have described the two sides of the same coin.

-archy-/-