A The Civil War... and modern day parallels [View all]

[nadinbrzezinski]

Yesterday I was talking to a fellow historian. His specialty is the civil war, no, not the orders of battle or who led what army in what battle... we leave that to the military historian. No, no, the social and economic conditions that led to it.

First, like me, he sees the dam parallels and the trends are NOT good.

Second, like the period preceding the Civil War the country is getting southern style politics as they try to impose their values on the rest of the country.

Of course the election came up and the POSSIBILITY that neither candidate will get the 270 electoral votes. 1876 is the last time that happened...

We are, as I have said it before, in the middle of a constitutional crisis.

Other subjects came up like the 2nd amendment (I will leave it at that), and our penchant from the earliest of days to use cheap labor.

It was both a gratifying and terrifying conversation.