01-02-2017, 03:59 PM
(01-02-2017, 03:30 PM)TnT Wrote:(12-26-2016, 05:17 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The regeneracy, this time, is like 2 times ago. IF it happens, the Left/liberals will join together in a common consensus, and stop bickering with each other. Then we on the Left will be able to overcome you guys on the right, and then forge the new consensus for the 1T. The Union will win and create the new Union. That's how it works; every time.
Check out W.E.B. Du Bois' Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880. And consider that for the whole history of our country, we have not been able to erase the blot of slavery that was integral in even the formation. I'm not convinced that any consensus was achieved during or after the ACW. What began as a natural separation (secession) was aborted. But that was about all.
I don't disagree. There was a prevailing power established in both North and South that made the 1T of that time, but the slavery issue was certainly not resolved, nor is it resolved today. It is also an open question for me whether the North should have allowed the South to secede.