Remember when Lincoln said, "A house divided will fall?"

[Archae]

There's a variation of the old "Monopoly" game, that plays as pure politics, and it's called "Monopoly: A House Divided."

Even the game tokens are political.

https://www.amazon.com/Monopoly-House-Divided-Board-Game/dp/B07VVLQ9VN#:~:text=It%27s%20a%20Monopoly%20game%20in,some%20political%20wheeling%20and%20dealing.

Is this yet another symptom of Trump?

[Shell_Seas]

1. I do not remember that.

Sure, my kids think I'm old, but not that old.

[Igel]

2. Some of us had to read things that people long dead wrote.

Like Lincoln.

Sometimes in spite of the fact that times were cruder and crasser in many respects than now they still had useful, long-lost insights into how people think and act.

My favorite "people used to be crasser" anecdote was overheard on the radio, but is adequately covered by this. Society has changed. While there are still people who would probably get off on this sort of spectacle, this wasn't just for the uncouth uncultured set, but also for royalty, clerics, teachers. (Although, granted, there are still subcultures and individuals in all cultures would would like this. Look at cock and dog fighting, for instance. Or boxing and other forms of pugilism. This sort of "everybody likes bloodshed" spectacle faded over the 19th century, more in some countries than others, and continued to fade through the 20th century. I figure that this helps explain why lynchings--like other hangings, guillotinings, etc.--were public spectacles, whether the person assaulted was white or black, and how their frequency and distribution changed over the course of the last 200 years.)

[Shell_Seas]

4. Schools should do more if that now. The Republican party has made America stupid.

[HotTeaBag]

3. The play seems sort of convoluted but it's just a race for the White House and a way for

Hasbro to make money.

Don't see what Trump has to do with it.