America is not Europe. We gave ourselves a clean slate and for the most part it has kept us together so that internal conflict does not become an international incident. We slipped up once.
I remember the Clinton years and the mood we are in right now is very similar. The AWB was enough to get some fellas in my area ready for a hot war. Then government changed. Now, with Obama, the very same topics are back again. Funny how that works.
Keep the long game in focus.
If you are interested in history, compare how Medicare was passed (and with what debate) to ObamaCare. Times are changing.
Yes, and remember how that was "defused". McVeigh, and the FBI snitch compound, where the government was in on the OK City bombing up to its eyeballs.
How many children died in that one, again?