Oops! You misstated the sides of the 3//5 Compromise. The southerners wanted all slaves counted sop they'd get more congressional representation. The northerners wanted none counted for the same reason.
A thoughtful piece, though I suspect we are too intertwined to actually separate. Of course the Haggadah speaks of taking one nation from the midst of another. Different circumstances but who knows? I share your anger.
Perhaps when Trump passes from the scene some sanity will return? Who knows.
Thank you for the correction, Paul. I will fix it. I am past thinking Trump is the problem. It is the people willing to overlook not just his character but January 6th. That includes the MAGA types but also the GOP cynics in Congress
Michael: There is obviously a huge disconnect between MAGA and the rest of the country but I suspect that Trump, as Fuehrer, is essential. When he passes from the scene, I think MAGA may disintegrate into quarreling competing subgroups - as we already see a bit of in response to the lack of "Epstein Files." Unlike the far right in the 1930's, MAGA has no ideology except loyalty to Trump. We'll see.
Possible, but long before Trump came down the escalator at his Tower the GOP had already become a faction whose internal quarrels did not stop them acting on one simple rule: always vote against what Democrats are for rendering the US ungovernable
Sparks lots and lots of memories, thanks! I think my Scotch-Irish great-grand-daddy, buried in Selma--he'd been a medic for the Confederates during the War Between the States--would say, there's no way the South would be allowed to secede, due to control of the Mississippi River. This was actually Doris Kearns Goodwin's answer when I asked her why Lincoln preferred civil war to allowing secession.
Oops! You misstated the sides of the 3//5 Compromise. The southerners wanted all slaves counted sop they'd get more congressional representation. The northerners wanted none counted for the same reason.
A thoughtful piece, though I suspect we are too intertwined to actually separate. Of course the Haggadah speaks of taking one nation from the midst of another. Different circumstances but who knows? I share your anger.
Perhaps when Trump passes from the scene some sanity will return? Who knows.
Corrected, thanks
Thank you for the correction, Paul. I will fix it. I am past thinking Trump is the problem. It is the people willing to overlook not just his character but January 6th. That includes the MAGA types but also the GOP cynics in Congress
Michael: There is obviously a huge disconnect between MAGA and the rest of the country but I suspect that Trump, as Fuehrer, is essential. When he passes from the scene, I think MAGA may disintegrate into quarreling competing subgroups - as we already see a bit of in response to the lack of "Epstein Files." Unlike the far right in the 1930's, MAGA has no ideology except loyalty to Trump. We'll see.
Possible, but long before Trump came down the escalator at his Tower the GOP had already become a faction whose internal quarrels did not stop them acting on one simple rule: always vote against what Democrats are for rendering the US ungovernable
Sparks lots and lots of memories, thanks! I think my Scotch-Irish great-grand-daddy, buried in Selma--he'd been a medic for the Confederates during the War Between the States--would say, there's no way the South would be allowed to secede, due to control of the Mississippi River. This was actually Doris Kearns Goodwin's answer when I asked her why Lincoln preferred civil war to allowing secession.