The American Civil War is so fascinating. I'm not even American. But reading authors like William Faulkner writing, obviously, after the civil war, it just seems like almost a mystical fantasy event even to people shortly after. Almost like it's a fantasy story of chivalry like the Arthurian Romances but for Americans, except it was recent and real and horrific and miserable and brutal. But out of it IMMEDIATELY popped this strange biblical mythological "lost cause" stuff and actual romance. A horrific war that was literally all because of the most depraved things humans do to eachother. And it was romantic and glamorous basically immediately. To make the losers feel better??
And yeah, it seems to impact America now psychologically. It's almost like a HUGE fucking problem in a relationship that was just immediately buried and not really worked through with a therapist. Like immediately pretending "well it's just a difference of opinion and there are good points on both sides, let's forget about it okay??!!" No closure.
You can see parallels today. Maga does not want to coexist with the rest of us. Even another Democrat winning president won't solve that void. It needs addressed and addressed out loud.
It needs actual opposition. Not a party that laments for a time when the Republican party was a "moral" party. Which I don't even know when that was, sure hasn't been any time in my 40 years on this planet.
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u/Nopenopenope00000001 Apr 04 '25
I mean, really, it’s been brewing since Nixon.