Parallels 0
Dennis G. sees parallels between now and then:
In many ways, the current skirmish over funding the Government for the next six months and the larger coming battle over Paul Ryan’s Path to a Galtian Utopia has very strong echoes of the build up to the Civil War. The names of the Parties have flipped, but the battle lines are similar. One side is unwilling to compromise and welcomes chaos with giddy excitement. The other is willing to embrace painful compromise to preserve the Union—agreeing to meet the Confederates far more than halfway time and time again. And yet—then as now—any compromise with the Confederates is never enough. Each new agreement just opens the door to more crazy and a fresh new unreasonable demand.
I’m not sure I buy the comparison completely, but it seems more accurate than I would like to admit.
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