We are getting old.

[Galen]

(09-28-2016, 09:40 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(09-27-2016, 02:05 PM)taramarie Wrote:

(09-27-2016, 09:24 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(09-26-2016, 03:06 AM)taramarie Wrote: I am unfamiliar with the aftermath of the civil war so I do not know how things were patched up after it.

There were a couple decades of "reconstruction", during which carpetbaggers from the north went south to lord it over southerners.  Then southern whites regained power and we got the institutionalized racism that lasted from the late 19th century to 1960 or so.  Basically there was no patching up, just continued disagreement with one side winning at a time.

Ah yeah just as i thought. That explains a lot and I do think this time around under Dionysian power, like back during the civil war times nothing will truly be settled. Not until much later.

I see it a little differently:  reconstruction was the "high", and was just fine for the North and for the carpetbaggers, just as the most recent "high" was just fine for the U.S. and for American GIs in Europe.  Then reconstruction was abandoned during the Missionary awakening, allowing the South to reassert itself just as Japan reasserted itself during the Boomer awakening.

(09-27-2016, 02:05 PM)taramarie Wrote: The little ones of today will begin the healing.

Those that survive, yes.

Unfortunately when governments get into fiscal trouble of the scale the West has now they choose to go to war since people are more willing to sacrifice their interests in the name of blind patriotism.  Now western governments have nukes and so they need either a war against an indefinable enemy and no well defined victory condition.  If the War on Terror is insufficient then a civil war might do the trick.  The last thing a politician ever wants to do is admit that the promises of the past can not be kept since it threatens their career.