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Imagine the confederate candidate had defeated Lincoln in 1860. Then imagine he had set out to destroy all parts of the government that did not agree with the confederacy. Seizing tyrant power, defunding anything he wanted, attacking every national institution to force its serving him and the confederacy. Transforming the country into the confederacy. Imagine he had Congress and the Supreme Court enabling it.
If that had happened, history wouldn't say 'that is when the United States was overthrown in a coup, and replaced by a confederacy'. The victor writes history, and it would simply have been a great evolution and improvement to the country.
If Women's Suffrage hadn't been enacted, it wouldn't have been the feat of Progress, but the defense of our national values and traditions. If JFK and LBJ hadn't passed the civil rights bills, it would just be ongoing grumbling, and again our successfully defending our values and traditions.
That's what we're seeing now. As the oligarchs defeat our democracy and replace it with oligarchy, part of the country recognizes that, but another part does not, and has its own version of history and what is happening. Nothing of value is being destroyed, rather the country is being 'strengthened' by removing harmful elements, by having the monarch we should, by essentially having an equivalent of 'the Confederacy'.
This is one reason the reaction to the coup and destruction and overthrow of our democracy traditional Americans expect of revolt and defense of our system isn't as strong as expected for such revolutionary changes. Another is that one side has 'political organization' far more than the public. Much as the Nazis had little organized resistance, the public has no Heritage Foundation, no Federalist Society, and apparently no dedicated billionaires.
Hopefully the point is clear; it could be expanded, such as an alternate history with a Fascist-friendly president instead of FDR embracing the world's growing Fascist movement, which much of the US supported, and how that history would not have looked like people think, either. This is our situation - a confederate instead of Lincoln winning in 1960, and radically trying to replace our governmental system, with a powerful army of oligarchs behind it.
If that had happened, history wouldn't say 'that is when the United States was overthrown in a coup, and replaced by a confederacy'. The victor writes history, and it would simply have been a great evolution and improvement to the country.
If Women's Suffrage hadn't been enacted, it wouldn't have been the feat of Progress, but the defense of our national values and traditions. If JFK and LBJ hadn't passed the civil rights bills, it would just be ongoing grumbling, and again our successfully defending our values and traditions.
That's what we're seeing now. As the oligarchs defeat our democracy and replace it with oligarchy, part of the country recognizes that, but another part does not, and has its own version of history and what is happening. Nothing of value is being destroyed, rather the country is being 'strengthened' by removing harmful elements, by having the monarch we should, by essentially having an equivalent of 'the Confederacy'.
This is one reason the reaction to the coup and destruction and overthrow of our democracy traditional Americans expect of revolt and defense of our system isn't as strong as expected for such revolutionary changes. Another is that one side has 'political organization' far more than the public. Much as the Nazis had little organized resistance, the public has no Heritage Foundation, no Federalist Society, and apparently no dedicated billionaires.
Hopefully the point is clear; it could be expanded, such as an alternate history with a Fascist-friendly president instead of FDR embracing the world's growing Fascist movement, which much of the US supported, and how that history would not have looked like people think, either. This is our situation - a confederate instead of Lincoln winning in 1960, and radically trying to replace our governmental system, with a powerful army of oligarchs behind it.
