#####It never ceases to amaze me.#####
Ditto. This thread intially was about the discovery of new Robert E. Lee materials. This isn’t the first time such a discovery has been made. Back in 1975, General Lee’s U.S. citizenship was restored by an act of Congress. Before his death, General Lee had filed papers requesting this, but the papers were somehow lost. He passed on without any action being taken on the matter. In 1975, someone stumbled upon the papers in an archive.
The discovery triggered a wave of national sympathy for General Lee, and Congress responded by overwhelmingly voting to restore his citizenship. Only ten members of Congress voted against the proposal. That’s right, a mere ten members, all of them the nuttiest left-wing types imaginable. Bella Abzug, Ron Dellums, John Conyers, etc.
America still had some life left in it back then. The cultural rot that started in the sixties had begun, but not yet reached a near terminal stage. If those papers had not been found in 1975, but were found today, it would take an enormous fight to get a proposal to restore General Lee’s citizenship through Congress in this day and age. It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which it would pass. Every Democrat today would surely vote no, and maybe 30% or so of the Republicans. And if anything, I might be overestimating the Republican votes, given their tendency to cut and run when race is invoked. If the bill was even given a hearing, all we’d hear for days on end would be people screaming “slavery!” over and over. Sponsors of the bill would have to bow and scrape and debase themselves by the time it was all over, probably in appearances on Al Sharpton’s radio show.
It’s just a shame what’s become of our country.
I see it the same way, except I believe this sort of cultural upheaval runs in cycles.
We’re just on the end of the downswing...then again I am an optimist about most things.
Hope the materials found are published soon.