RE: Can the polarization between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. be reversed?
December 2, 2018 at 12:08 pm
(December 2, 2018 at 12:02 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(December 2, 2018 at 11:48 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: The past included a civil war. The reconciliation resulted from the the understanding that the preferred path for one side is blocked by overwhelming military force proven able and willing to win.
I strongly suspect that the reconciliation in the Civil War is not the only such example in world history, but in any case, you have the arrows reversed. The people who made concessions were those who had triumphed militarily and thus had no need to make concessions, not those who might have been cowed by their prior defeat. So you have the history here upside down.
No, the people who made the concession were the people who wanted to leave the union and keep slaves. They did not make the concession. The concession was taken from them. The fact that they then waged a century long political war to regain parts of what they conceded and appears to even recently be making progress that cheerier view of history had not allowed to be possible does not reverse the overall balance.
