Timsup2nothin
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Would probably have been better off forming two countries, really.
Would probably have been better off forming two countries, really.
It's because we've gotten off the message that Trump was borrowing faster than growth during the peak of the business cycle, and shoveling the money up words.
All of the drama that surrounds him is stuff that is easily sorted into partisan bins, where you either care zero amount or care 100%. And the people in the middle just see noise
Donald J. Trump: "Hold my beer..."It's in how a whole set of things hang together: rule of law, no man is above the law, separation of powers, checks and balances, amendments, 2/3.
They did form two counties... and they did fight... and it settled some things... other things, we're still dealing with.
Would probably have been better off forming two countries, really.
The Union won the war, but the slavers won the peace. Tilden vs. Hayes guaranteed the end of Reconstruction, which the Republican Party was not too keen on anyway.I'm shifting to a theory that the civil war never really ended. The central conflicts it revealed in the US are no closer to being solved now than they were in 1865. Perhaps if the Union had taken off the gloves during its occupation of the former Confederacy, and really massacred the whites at the South until not many were left, things would have turned out better...but maybe not, too. It's not like the North lacked its own problems with racism and class inequality.
But yeah...the Civil War never ended. The same fights are still going on. They were suppressed for a while before re-emerging as obvious issues in the 1950s and 1960s...and those issues, as the election of Obama and then Trump showed, are still at the heart of our politics today.
Back when the revolt against Britain began and independence was decided on as the goal, the original plan was for each of the thirteen colonies to then go their separate ways as independent nations should they actually win the war. Of course that plan didn't last very long once victory was actually achieved.
The Union won the war, but the slavers won the peace. Tilden vs. Hayes guaranteed the end of Reconstruction, which the Republican Party was not too keen on anyway.
In many ways, most of America's political insanity can be traced to slavery. And as history shows, such levels of insanity, like Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy, have only ever been defeated, inasmuch as they were really defeated and not just handed setbacks, by a combination of military destruction and occupation followed by decades of cultural shifts and enforced democracy. The Civil War and Reconstruction handled the first two, but the latter two were never really completed, and we're paying the price for it.
Unlikely. Like mask-wearing/taking COVID seriously... the mail-in voting has been politicized to the point where many Republicans are going to feel like its a loyalty test. So if they are voting by mail they'll want to keep it to themselves lest they be seen as siding with the liberals.Every (R) that is voting by mail needs to tell their Social Circle, to start building the expectation of delay
This is actually false. The colonies were never considered truly independent states. Even in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence it was the Continental Congress, not any individual colony, that held the major powers of sovereignty
That can sadly only be achieved by winning power massively, securing the loyalty of the CIA, the FBI, the military, and the courts to the idea of rule of law, and having a massive national militia of heavily armed, well trained, and highly organized citizens several million strong.Yes - to steal an idea from Noam Chomsky, I think it is pretty clear we need to think about fixing the US in terms of denazification.
That can sadly only be achieved by winning power massively, securing the loyalty of the CIA, the FBI, the military, and the courts to the idea of rule of law, and having a massive national militia of heavily armed, well trained, and highly organized citizens several million strong.
Germany had the pillars of the Nazi Party destroyed, and its country occupied, by the Allies. America has no such benefits - it also has a heavily entrenched centrist bloc of voters and citizens who are morally opposed to opposing conservatism too much no matter how extreme it gets. Even worse, we have very little time to bring America back from the brink before a combination of climate change, nuclear weapons, and capitalist-controlled AI ends the human race, which will happen in a few decades at the most.
Really, the fate of the human race was probably decided a few decades ago and we're just trying to go down with a fight.
Samurai Champloo said:Only hope can give rise to
the emotion we call despair.
But it is difficult for man to
live completely without hope.
In other words, man has no choice but
to live with despair as his companion.
Unlikely. Like mask-wearing/taking COVID seriously... the mail-in voting has been politicized to the point where many Republicans are going to feel like its a loyalty test. So if they are voting by mail they'll want to keep it to themselves lest they be seen as siding with the liberals.