cmsellers wrote:One hundred and sixty two years ago to the month, the US was more divided than it had ever been before. Some people thought that holding other humans in bondage was super-nifty; others thought that it was totally uncool. One of the latter people was a senator by the name of Charles Sumner, who took to the floor of the Senate to compare slavery to rape and call a certain pro-slavery senator a stuttering adulterer.
This analogy was so shocking and unwarranted that a cousin of said senator, US Representative Preston Brooks decided the only acceptable solution was to beat Senator Sumner until his cane broke. After which the good people of the slaveholding states saw that the impudent senator was rightly chastened and sent replacement canes to Congressman Brooks while newspapers on the pro-slavery side exhorted Brooks to "hit him again."
My point being, this isn't the first time the US has been divided, with half the country believing the current state of affairs was beyond the pale, the the other half believing the first half's reaction was.
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cmsellers wrote:One hundred and sixty two years ago to the month, the US was more divided than it had ever been before. Some people thought that holding other humans in bondage was super-nifty; others thought that it was totally uncool. One of the latter people was a senator by the name of Charles Sumner, who took to the floor of the Senate to compare slavery to rape and call a certain pro-slavery senator a stuttering adulterer.
This analogy was so shocking and unwarranted that a cousin of said senator, US Representative Preston Brooks decided the only acceptable solution was to beat Senator Sumner until his cane broke. After which the good people of the slaveholding states saw that the impudent senator was rightly chastened and sent replacement canes to Congressman Brooks while newspapers on the pro-slavery side exhorted Brooks to "hit him again."
My point being, this isn't the first time the US has been divided, with half the country believing the current state of affairs was beyond the pale, the the other half believing the first half's reaction was.
DoglovingJim wrote:Did... Did that really happen?
Doodle Dee. Snickers wrote:And yea were we all comforted when Sellers said "Hey guys, don't worry, we were pretty divided before the Civil War, too"
Doodle Dee. Snickers wrote:Dude, Andrew Jackson straight up had a duel with a guy who insulted his wife, along with about eight thousand other people. Duels were actually pretty commonplace then (Looking at you, Hamilton) Teddy Roosevelt was so fond of boxing that as the president, he had a sparring partner who hit him so hard that he lost vision in one eye (you have to wonder who had the balls to punch Teddy Roosevelet).
cmsellers wrote:If it does come Civil War 2.0 it's likely to be one of the shortest civil wars ever, seeing as the pro-Trump side has a lot more guns and a lot more people who know how to use them.
cmsellers wrote:If it does come Civil War 2.0 it's likely to be one of the shortest civil wars ever, seeing as the pro-Trump side has a lot more guns and a lot more people who know how to use them.
Absentia wrote:The Civil War was not the last time the country was deeply divided. From the '50's through the early '70's, we had the Red Scare, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, the Vietnam War, and Watergate. There were riots and people died.
If the worst we do to each other now is say mean things on Twitter and in mildly inappropriate comedy bits, I think we're going to be okay.
Absentia wrote:Isolated, rogue crazy people who are tangentially motivated by politics aren't what I'm talking about (and it's not like nobody really famous and important got assassinated in, say, 1963).
I'm talking about movements that bitterly divided sane, ordinary Americans. I don't think we're there yet, to the extent we were then.
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