Posted on 06/21/2016 8:34:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Politics follow culture today, so identifying yourself with a political party is pretty much tattooing a label on your forehead.
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Nice story and I do know these things happened. It’s sad that the Confederate flag - which used to be sold along with the Union at battlefields all over the east has been banned. This splintering is so dangerous to America.
I'm INFECTED !
I read your tag line !
I’m too much Mississippi and W. Michigan to EVER be so damn petty to ever have written such stuff on Facebook.
Seeing that civil war story seriously made me misty though. America was like that still just 35 years ago. We were like that 15 years ago for a brief moment too.
The ladies of Gray shared a common Christian heritage which created unspoken cultural norms, with their Southern counterparts. That bound them even though their sons were killing each other.
“While the nation certainly isn’t as polarized as it was during the 1860s,”
We absolutely are. This is a very divided time. In all honesty, one side is revolutionary socialist and truly despises everything we ever learned about our country as kids in school. Then their is our side that likes thanksgiving and all that comes with it.
One small example. the men who actually fought the civil war had many reunions/BBQ/picnics afterwards. One in 1913 was nearly as big as the battle. It was complete with a reenactment of Picketts Charge, only the confederates were met at the wall with cool drinks and handshakes.
Its a joke to see people today more mad about the confederacy than people who fought against it.
The affliction manifests itself in many forms! Monitor you symptoms closely!
VavaVOOM !
It sure is, and it is a shame.
One small example. the men who actually fought the civil war had many reunions/BBQ/picnics afterwards. One in 1913 was nearly as big as the battle. It was complete with a reenactment of Picketts Charge, only the confederates were met at the wall with cool drinks and handshakes.
Its a joke to see people today more mad about the confederacy than people who fought against it.””
Ask yourself who has stirred this hatred for their fellow Christian Americans? ANS: Barack Hussein Obama, homowood, and the old media. Think about it.
Waiting for the race baiting south bashing contingent here to show up and shite on the floor
A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War
In this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind—the distortions of reality—that destroyed George Washington's vision of a united America and inflicted the tragedy that still divide's the nation's soul.
I agree.
The only difference is we are polarized not on a state by state basis as in 1860 but on a house to house basis.
There is Christianity and a thin veneer of civility holding the right back back but there is nothing comparable on the left. There is no violence because the left is winning.
The US was more civilized in those days....there was a thing known as honor
Big differences in CWII and CWII. The concepts of honor, integrity, virtue were so intensely held one could almost look at CWII as a fight over which side was more virtuous. The north for abolition at any cost or the south for considering a foreign invasion the epitome of rude behavior and an insult to honor that required an answer.
CWII will be the ultimate in asymmetrical morality. The only winner will be the foreign entity that becomes the subsequent world power. We can hope that CWII leaves a nation so destroyed no foreign power would want it.
Interesting times.
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