James Fallows of The Atlantic has been doing a very good job exposing the Constitutional crisis being forced by the current GOP. It's a good question in my mind whether this is what a civil war looks like before it happens. Remember, the GOP is basically the party of the armed crazies.
While I don't think we'll devolve into real tanks and planes violence - our Federal power is too entrenched to allow that to happen - but it's good to pay attention in a scientific fashion when a variable is added or removed. Just as the "Great Recession" of 2008 would have been a repeat of 1929 had we not had the major failsafes put into place, so too this conflict could possibly dissolve into a 1960s era chaos.
And just like the 1860s, and the 1960s, this fight is ultimately about race. Again. Wow, I had really no idea how deep this hatred ran in America. It's almost as bad and deep as the anti-semitism of Europe.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
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