Are there any similarities between today and the time of the Civil War??
We were divided a long time before the Great Civil War. There was the Missouri Compromise of 1820. It was about slavery and the division of power in the House of Representatives. That is how Maine became a free state separate from the northern region of Massachusetts, in order to balance the "free" states and the "slave" states. So it went on for 40 years before it finally boiled over. In December of 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union. Four months later, they were firing their cannons upon Fort Sumter.
Are we experiencing a similar situation? There is a question on the Colorado ballot for the next election to permit Northern Colorado to become an independent state. Texas has talked of seceding from the union. How different is that from 1860?
We tend to look at history in different ways. The South was no independent country with a standing army. They were not equal to the standing Army of the Union. They were nothing more than a rag-tag bunch of TeaBaggers with guns and hatred for their government and its leader, Abe Lincoln. They hated Abraham Lincoln with a passion, moreso than they hate Barack Obama.
Are there similarities? I don't know. But if it goes on for years, it can fester up and create unmanageable tensions between parties. It is no time to compromise with what we know is wrong. That would only encourage them.
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