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Michael G Cassidy's avatar

Irony has always been at the heart of dramatic tragedy. The fact that the white supremacists and oligarchs of the Confederacy were Democrats and Lincoln and the authors of abolition and Reconstruction were Republicans; that today's white supremacists and oligarchs are Republicans and the authors of modern civil rights are Democrats is the irony. Will the current unfolding of history be a tragedy is yet to be determined.

Perhaps one further historical irony will be that the descendants of the former slaves, people of color, women, and gender minorities, forming the core of the Democratic coalition, will be the ones to stem the tide that seems to be perilously rising. They, more than anyone, understand that the only thing standing between them and a return to a white supremacist, male dominated, oligarchic culture are the democratic principles that have been furthering human and civil rights, albeit gradually and fitfully, to all citizens.

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J. P. Dwyer's avatar

Thom, This is all absolutely true. The book HOW THE SOUTH WON THE CIVIL WAR is a great detailed analysis of how,this,has been accomplished since the end of the Civil War. I’m urge anyone who has not read it to put it on their list.

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