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Old July 5, 2014, 02:59 AM   #73
gc70
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Originally Posted by raimius
I see some people talking on the internet about how we are approaching another Civil War like time, but I just don't see it. Do you really think large numbers of people are willing to kill their neighbors for disagreeing over Citizens United, the ACA, or whatever the topic of the day is? I just don't see that as likely, and that makes me quite happy.
It is always difficult to tell whether the passions of the moment create an environment in which a spark will die out or will erupt into a conflagration.

Even in the critical months preceding the beginning of the Civil War, large numbers of people were not willing to kill their neighbors over the issue of slavery, or even the dissolution of the Union. What I have read suggests the general sentiment in Northern states was "good riddance" to the seceding Southern states. However, the hostilities at Fort Sumter provided a different issue -or spark- that ignited the Civil War.
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