RE: America Divided: Second Civil War Coming?
February 23, 2017 at 11:22 am
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2017 at 11:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The last time the us rebelled as a contiguous unit the stupidity or largess of the separatists didn't seem to be a problem. In significant parts, they both contributed to it. It took a real idiot to believe in the resistance to the sugar and stamp acts, and later the tea duties. It took a relatively plumped person to be angry with the latter, specifically, which made tea even -cheaper- for the colonists. OFC, many colonists did not seem to notice that they were being played by an oligarchy against a monarchy in order to protect the status of the former against a perceived threat from the latter.
OTOH, they didn't have much to do at the time but shoot at furriners....economic slump and all.
Murica!
The same exercise can be repeated with the civil war, wherein poor southerners who were very likely themselves to be at the bottom rung of a stultifying social order fought to protect the disproportionate legislative ability wielded by the southern gentry, in their time..the educated elites, lol-and again, whole lot of furriner shootin went down.
OTOH, they didn't have much to do at the time but shoot at furriners....economic slump and all.
Murica!
The same exercise can be repeated with the civil war, wherein poor southerners who were very likely themselves to be at the bottom rung of a stultifying social order fought to protect the disproportionate legislative ability wielded by the southern gentry, in their time..the educated elites, lol-and again, whole lot of furriner shootin went down.
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