2/17/2023 0 Comments Civil war game time 2019![]() ![]() In a reversal of cause and effect, losers, crazies, clingers, American “East Germans,” and deplorables themselves were blamed for driving industries out of their neighborhoods (as if the characters out of Duck Dynasty or Ax Men turned off potential employers). Ideologies and apologies accumulated to justify the new divide. It created new iconic billionaires in high tech and finance, and their subsidiaries of coastal elites, while hollowing out the muscular jobs largely in the American interior. Globalization had an unfortunate effect of undermining national unity. What has caused the United States to split apart so rapidly? Red and blue states ensure that locale magnifies differences that were mostly manageable during the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, the Bushes, and Clinton. Left–Right factionalism is increasingly fueled by geography - always history’s force multiplier of civil strife. We are now nearing a point comparable to 1860, and perhaps past 1968. Donald Trump’s election was not so much a catalyst for the divide as a manifestation and amplification of the existing schism. ![]()
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