03-12-2021, 02:40 PM
(03-12-2021, 01:30 PM)Einzige Wrote:(03-12-2021, 12:33 PM)Bob Butler 54. Wrote: Lincoln... had no great following going into their crises either.Wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Awakes
Oh, yes. The Abolitionists were quite active and Lincoln won the presidency. He had a following at least in the north, and the south was quite paranoid that he would kill their culture, which he ultimately did. They demonized him, and scared themselves with the resulting demon. The Wide Awakes never went down south, but you would never guess it by the propaganda the south put out.
But Lincoln was not sainted yet. Right now we have a pantheon of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, and not even Regan is close. Assuredly, Biden is even further away. Still, the forces of history are aligning to make him the best person to personify the change in the history books. Looking around, if there is a grey champion every crisis, who would you nominate? Sanders? Warren? Harris? If the crisis is a quick as I suspect, Biden seems to have the best shot, however unlikely it seems right now.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.