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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid."
That's the way it's appearing to me also.
http://www.ozy.com/2016/how-lincoln-fought-trumpism-in-the-1850s/71298?fb=OZY&type=cpc&aud=oldlib
How Lincoln Fought Trumpism in the 1850s
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Midway through the 19th century, the country surged with a new political force. Mostly made up of white Protestant working- and middle-class voters, this emerging bloc despised the elites, whom they felt had created a rigged system. They blamed the influx of migrants namely Irish Catholics fleeing the potato famine of the mid-1840s for a diversifying nation unlike the America of their youth. While these anti-establishment dissidents eventually formed the American Party, they began as state groups loosely affiliated by one universal nickname: the Know Nothings. As Mark Silk, a professor of religion in public life at Trinity University, puts it: They easily could have said Make America Great Again.
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"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid." (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2016
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pbmus
(12,422 posts)1. When you hire a degenerate to run your country
Anything goes...especially decorum
elleng
(130,923 posts)2. Hi, b'sis.
babylonsister
(171,066 posts)3. I know,
my friend. As my dear, recently deceased friend said to me often, "it'll be all right."
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)4. I'm worried that it won't be all right again
for a long time....