Gray Champion Predictions

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-30-2019, 06:21 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Lincoln, FDR, and Churchill were just as divisive.  It's just that after the crisis, the divisiveness is written out of the history books.

Well, not entirely out.  It is true that in the high there is a strong tendency to stomp on the conservative mind set of before the crisis.  The problems that the society faced were solved in the crisis heart.  The solutions are set in stone at the crisis high cusp.  There is a tendency to stomp extra heavy on the conservative mind set that did quite well before the crisis, so that society frowns on kings, slaveowners and dictators.  Been there.  Done that.  Time to move on.

But we don’t forget the stereotype of the former rich cussing at FDR as ‘that man in the White House.’

I do remember a historian interviewing a descendant of Nathan Bedford Forrest, an outstanding Confederate general and a founder of the KKK.  The historian waxed poetic about Lincoln and Forrest being two of the greatest minds of the Civil War, each exemplifying their sides in the conflict.

In response to this flattering comparison, there was a brief silence, then…

“We don’t mention that man around here.”  Well over a century after things were decided, there were still remnants of the old conflict.

I for one think some people never learn, and will cling to the old way of thinking even after the crisis is solved.  Kings, slaves, dictators and robber barons, hurrah!  The high mentality doesn’t so much wipe out memory of the old values, but puts such a condemnation into the culture that the older way of thinking can do very little harm.  Even then they come back with stuff like Jim Crow, the Southern Strategy and the like.