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kentuck

(114,017 posts) Sat May 24, 2025, 12:44 PM May 24

Division can create hatred that lives for generations...

That was what happened during and after the Civil War. Four or five generations after the Civil War, the hatred had been passed down to their children and grandchildren, even their great grandchildren.

It was manifested in the Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan. In many places, part of it is still alive today.

The war that pitted brother against brother and killed more than 600,000 men of this nation. When it ended, there was no kissing and making up. The hatred boiled over.

Now, we have a demagogue in power that is attempting to incite another civil war, with his hatred and talk of division. It must be stopped.

We need only to look at how it simmered and lingered for one hundred years after the last civil war.

Let us look soberly at the road ahead.

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Division can create hatred that lives for generations... (Original Post) kentuck May 24 OP

there are a lot of voices calling for, "tear it down and start over" stopdiggin May 24 #1

Longer than a century misanthrope May 24 #2

Multi-generational hatred? Paladin May 24 #3

This is why White Southerners voted D for decades Kaleva May 24 #4

stopdiggin

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1. there are a lot of voices calling for, "tear it down and start over"

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat May 24, 2025, 01:20 PM

May 24

and unfortunately their number includes a depressingly large number on 'our' side of the aisle.
( they've always been there - but what were formerly called 'crackpots' and radicals, have been transformed to nearly mainstream. again, both sides of the aisle. )

I consider these individuals to be misguided and lacking in historical and human perspective - when I am being generous.
But most of the time the term 'moron' just seems more apt.