"What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" - Thomas Jefferson 1787
I wonder if every hundred years or so America will have a civil war or near civil war:
1770s: Revolutionary (civil war)
1860s: Civil War
1960s: near civil war or start of internal cold war
2060s: civil war II?
The cause of wars appear to revolve around a lack of representation or having insufficient say in government:
1770s: lack of representation, particularly on taxes
1860s: debatable, but lack of representation for slaves from Northern perspective; lack of representation in new America territories (west and southwest) from Southern perspective. Northern perspective could also just be the secession of Southern states.
1960s: lack of representation for blacks in South and lack of representation for 18-yr old draftees to Vietnam
2060s: ?
The abortion debate is particularly high-pitched not only given the human life at stake but because the child in the womb does not have representation in Roe v Wade decision.
Some of the current day controversies are the result of a feeling of lack of representation since both political parties are for open borders (in practice if not rhetoric), both pro-trade with China and outsourcing of manufacturing there, and both war hawks (since 2008) on foreign policy.
The 2020 election also literally represents the taking away of representation since every fraudulent vote cancels a legal one. Merely questioning or auditing the election results is seen as illegitimate, so we lack even representation to investigate if we have proper representation.
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