10-16-2022, 03:37 PM
(10-15-2022, 08:06 AM)David Horn Wrote: Now to Bob: I can't say 1Ts always resolve the issues of the cirsis. Reconstruction after the ACW lead in a short loop right back to where it all started. It took the next crsis to trigger anything approaching reform, and that's, once again, under heavy attack. Some things are baked-in too deep to be that easily resolved. I'm not sure how autocratic the tendancy of the US really is, but ~40% seem ready to back the current nominal dictator they love so well. Is this different from the German-American Bund in the '30s, the John Birch Society in the '50s, the Branch Davidians in the '90s and the QAnon wacknuts of today.
I would say racism is more persistent by far than most problems. You can end slavery, but there is always another form of racial oppression. You can only get rid of your colonial oppressor and noble privilege once. The steps taken after the Revolution were sufficient. This time we might see things limited to proxy war and sanctions. However, you might have to take steps to contain autocratic rulers for as long as there will be autocratic rulers. I doubt we are ready for that yet.
The immediate problem is solved and ‘never again’ applied, but sometimes the shadow takes another form and grows again.
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.