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A Disturbing Civil War Parallel

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We were watching Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary the other day, and I commented that I used to think it was impossible to imagine a civil war in America, but lately it seems more and more plausible.

Then the documentary mentioned that after Lincoln was elected in 1860, opposition protesters would burn him in effigy.  I thought, “Well, at least we haven’t gotten to that point yet.”

Then I saw this come through my email from Congress.org:  Protesters hang Graham in effigy.  Uh oh.  Suddenly it’s pretty easy to imagine hardcore conservatives burning Obama in effigy.  (And/or hardcore liberals burning whoever the next Republican president is in effigy.)

Said hanging was over the topic of abortion, by the way, which is one of my top two potential reasons for the next American civil war.  (The other being immigration.)

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