"I think you are being over-optimistic if you think authoritarianism isn't a major concern for the USA. One of our two major parties has de facto abandoned any real belief in liberal democracy. One wonders how long they'll even give lip service to it. Poland and Hungary--or even Russia--is our future, unless something on the scale of 1775, 1861, or 1941 intervenes. And since that would involve mass violence, how can anyone wish for it? But do we give up democracy without a fight? I have no answers. I certainly do not think I'm being over-dramatic. In some ways, our democracy is under worse attack than it was from the Southern Planters or the Axis powers. I might also add, I think you give this "generational" theory way too much importance. I find its empirical basis problematical, to say the least. There's some truth to it--but there's some truth to almost everything."
Lincoln proved that, baby. He was a disaster for his Northern white electorate. It wasn't just Southern planters he ruined.
He armed freed negroes, queered the meaning of the Second Amendment. This was designed to protect rebellious and anarchic colonists of each state not only against its own denizens, but also against Britain, against Indians and the French and Spanish, and most importantly, against the militias of their so called brother states, if called upon by their own state or local government to do so.
Most importantly, it guaranteed the safety of colonists who often were almost outnumbered by negro slaves in the Southern states.
He armed freed negroes, queered the meaning of the Second Amendment. This was designed to protect rebellious and anarchic colonists of each state not only against its own denizens, but also against Britain, against Indians and the French and Spanish, and most importantly, against the militias of their so called brother states, if called upon by their own state or local government to do so.
Most importantly, it guaranteed the safety of colonists who often were almost outnumbered by negro slaves in the Southern states.
The white North is still trying to get used to the idea of integrating blacks....
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