07-20-2020, 10:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-21-2020, 06:36 AM by Classic-Xer.)
(07-20-2020, 06:18 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: There is a very long term way of looking at things which is laid out in the book The Cousin's Wars. It proposes that the English Civil War started the split between what has become the modern red blue conflict. There was an aristocratic, rural, high church cavalier faction, and a democratic, urban, low church roundhead faction. The first immigrated to the southern states when they were losing, and the last immigrated to the north. Both cultures made significant contributions, each in their own way, to how America evolved.How would you plan to eat during the Liberal war with Rural America? How do you keep Suburban America from siding with Rural America? How do you keep what's left of Urban America from leaving and siding with Suburban America and Rural America? You're right, Liberal America which ain't all that liberal or all that democratic these days either would end up getting smoked by America.
Still, it is generally the Roundhead pattern where equality, human rights and democracy is pushed forward. The roundhead urban faction has wound up pushing the new values, the cavalier rural faction the old.
I suspect this has some bearing for why you are an advocate for the southern, rural, racist, red perspective of today.
Now I can't say that the cavalier culture hasn't contributed to America. They just wind up supporting the racist violent element, which is a disadvantage when the 4T comes around. They tend to get smoked.