The Democrats Were Here Before and Tore the Nation Asunder – Consider Lincoln

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April 23, 2017
The Democrats Were Here Before and Tore the Nation Asunder – Consider Lincoln
By Michael S. Goldstein

 

The Democrats, through their rhetoric and their actions, are opposing the Trump administration at every turn.  Through Obama administration government holdovers, they intend to bring down the present government and maintain and expand the bureaucratic Administrative State which is destroying federalism, taking away Americans’ individual rights, and nullifying large swaths of the Constitution of the United States.  Their presidential candidate failed to win the office, and the Democrats’ expected triumph of the Administrative State will at best be postponed and at worst be dismantled to a great extent by President Trump and his appointees.

 

The Democrats are furious, and, as has been reported in these pages and in other sources, their reaction has been militant, irrational, and destructive to our nation.

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Before, during and after the Civil War power struggles of all types led to widespread conflict.  Bleeding Kansas saw Red Leg unionists leave a swath of destruction across Kansas and Missouri killing hundreds and causing thousands to flee smouldering ruins.  Reconstruction was worse.

"White Caps" in New Mexico protested efforts by the government to fund public education, thereby replacing the church as the primary means of education.  They would kill or torture government officials attempting to raise education funds.  (They got their name because they dressed like the KKK.)

The list is long and ugly but it boils down to power struggles.  Some were fighting to keep power, others were fighting to gain power.  Many innocents were caught in the cross fire and most of these innocents simply wanted to be left alone.  Doesn't work that way.