{"id":14571,"date":"2021-05-17T19:39:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=14571"},"modified":"2021-05-17T19:39:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T23:39:48","slug":"putting-things-in-perspective-part-2-civil-war-analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/putting-things-in-perspective-part-2-civil-war-analogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Things in Perspective \u2013 Part 2 \u2013 Civil War Analogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

After discussing the Revolutionary War last time<\/a>, the next major historical comparison I\u2019d like to look at is the one comparing our situation to the mid-nineteenth century American Civil War.\u00a0 In this comparison the Left is equated with the historical \u201cNorth\u201d and the Right with the \u201cSouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll start with things that do align in this comparison.\u00a0 The cultural and intellectual elites of the Abolitionist Movement do line up well with the modern Left.\u00a0 In fact, there is probably a decent number among today\u2019s Woke Left that are direct descendants from the Abolitionists themselves.\u00a0 And certain historians believe that the culture of New England and its exports to areas like the Great Lakes area and the Pacific Coast states have preserved the viewpoint and authority of the nineteenth century elites from that region of the country.\u00a0 From that point of view there is a certain direct analogy between the Northern Abolitionist Leadership and the Modern Left.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s look at some of the other factors.\u00a0 First of all, let\u2019s look at the driving force of the cause.\u00a0 The Abolitionists wanted to end slavery.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to over stress just how popular this cause was.\u00a0 It was evident to even many Southerners that slavery was an evil that could not be justified by its benefits to the economy.\u00a0 For a country whose whole existence is expressed in the single word freedom, slavery is anathema.\u00a0 Therefore, the moral underpinnings of the Civil War were very powerful.\u00a0 Certainly, the Southern States were able to muster a justification for the practice of slavery but at no time did this justification convince anyone outside of the South and not even everyone inside.\u00a0 So, the abolition of slavery was a cause that resonated broadly around the United States outside of the Deep South.<\/p>\n

But look at the current agenda of the Woke Left.\u00a0 It is a rag tag grab bag of radical ideas and identity politics grievances that isn\u2019t even rationally self-consistent.\u00a0 Feminism and even lesbian feminism are at odds with transgender \u201crights.\u201d\u00a0 And the BLM agenda of eliminating the police won\u2019t stand scrutiny by other communities like Asians and Hispanics now that they see that it equates to wholesale criminal anarchy.\u00a0 It is far from certain that even in the \u201cBlue States\u201d that the whole agenda of the radical Left is entirely acceptable.\u00a0 This is a major difference between the Civil War situation.\u00a0 The Left\u2019s agenda today is far less popular than the abolition of slavery was back then.<\/p>\n

The next consideration is the location of each \u201cside.\u201d\u00a0 The Confederacy was never able to convince even some of the slave states to join in its revolt.\u00a0 The border states Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland never seceded.\u00a0 And even an area of Virginia refused to join and \u201cseceded\u201d from Virginia to become West Virginia and remain with the Union.\u00a0 Inside the free states there weren\u2019t any large areas that would have joined the South or opposed the abolition of slavery for the most part.<\/p>\n

But look at today.\u00a0 Instead, the Red and Blue States are only an indicator of the majority status of each side in a state.\u00a0 But geographically we can see that this is really a city versus countryside polarization.\u00a0 The cities in the Red States are full of Leftists for the most part and even deep Blue States like California and New York have rural areas that are completely red.\u00a0 This definitely helps our side.\u00a0 These concentrated populations of Leftists work well when you want to cheat during an election but it doesn\u2019t help much when you are trying to control a population that is diffused over thousands of square miles in some cases.\u00a0 Controlling the back country especially when it is adjacent to a Red State may turn out to be an impossible job.<\/p>\n

And finally in the 1860\u2019s the slave states were so afraid of a Republican holding the White House that they seceded before Lincoln could even assemble his government.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen two truly woke administration already.\u00a0 Obama and now Biden.\u00a0 And Biden is using all the force of the federal government to destroy our way of life.\u00a0 But what it seems to show is that determined state leaders can use the state laws to combat these Woke orders and possibly nullify their effects without having to leave the Union.\u00a0 This is still a preliminary evaluation but I think it is worth seeing if the lessons learned from Sanctuary Cities can be applied to other issues like Second Amendment Rights and First Amendment Freedoms.<\/p>\n

So, from the point of view comparison, it seems to me that our side is significantly better off in the present situation than the South was during the Civil War.\u00a0 And that is definitely a thing to be happy about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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