Domestically, we are rather like Germany before Bismarck.
Jonathan Steinberg had an entertaining lecture, partly on German fragmentation in the 17 and 18 th Centuries, as part of one of his Teaching Company Famous Lives Lectures.
Re German political drift (analogous to Nevins' account of the run up here to the Civil War, but applicable to any period in our political history), he quoted a wag who put it something like: "nothing ever happens".
The truth of course was, and is, that things of the greatest importance are happening incessantly.
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