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If you look at it with a metaphorical eye, it's not that hard- after a while- to see us in a rather close nonviolent-but-disgusting political recapitulation of the Civil War proper. Each year of the CW corresponds pretty well to four year stretches in the past decade-plus by events, by changes in leadership competence and footsoldier quality, by public support level/psychology internal to each side, and in sense of how close (or far off) victory and end of the war is. Needless to say, our side fits to the Union, theirs to the Confederacy.
The CW ended a 75 year conflict whose resolution is contained in the 13th Amendment. Our present conflict is about getting proper interpretation and enforcement of the 14th.
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