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Originally Posted by DAVES
I find our current divisiveness similar to what life after the civil war must have been like.
Roughly 10% of our population, of military age, fought in the war. Vets were a common sight missing arms, legs eyes etc. Lincoln wanted to welcome the south back into the union. Lincoln was murdered and Johnson became president. Johnson wanted vengeance. Part of how we got to where we are today.
Just as today. Reality is far more complex than what most accept as truth.
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I come from the same family as Abraham Lincoln, which landed in Hingham MA in the 1630s, but not a direct relative, as there are none remaining, and I trace my origins back to Lincolnshire, England.
What people forget in their American history class is the UNITED STATES part, a collection of states rights, and that the Constitution was written in a very different time and place, with very different attitudes, but with great intentions for being the best government for the people of the times.
Keeping the union of 50 states with states rights is a huge balancing act, and is getting harder to manage the bigger we grow, and the in the age of worldwide social media, has other governments wanting to subvert through psy-ops. . . .
That is the nature of the human existence, especially in european and western cultures. Similar issues in the Euro, which is a collection of european country rights to try to compete with the US and others collectively.
Humans having some herding instincts find that having a common enemy helps survival and organization for a leader. . . in behavioral psychology, its competitive human organizational games versus cooperative human organizational games.