[lbo-talk] a vision...

[kjkhoo at softhome.net]

At 10:23 am -0500 3/11/04, snit snat wrote:
>At 10:09 AM 11/3/2004, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
>>One way to pursue is to work toward greater sovereignty of individual states
>>and eventual breakup of the federal entity or perhaps reconstituting it more
>>like a loose confederation of sovereign states - similar to EU.  That might
>>also entail introduction of proportional representation on the state level.
>
>[snipped]
>Anyway, I also think your idea will prompt civil war. E.g., let's 
>say the Bush reigh continues and they select dickweed here in 
>limpdick to run in 2008. It wouldn't surprise me--they'd have the 
>cahones. So, dickweed tries to take the country to war and NYers 
>vote and say, up yours. We're not helping. Imagine.

In the WSJ of 2 Nov, Alan Murray concluded his column with:

"Historian Eric Foner says in some respects, the current turbulence 
resembles the period before the Civil War when evangelical 
Christianity was surging, the media was intensely partisan, and civil 
institutions were breaking down. The arguments then weren't just over 
slavery, but also over separation of church and state and whether the 
mail should be delivered on Sunday. And, of course, it ultimately 
took a war to reconcile them.

Let's hope it doesn't take a war this time. But it will take 
extraordinary leadership. A house this divided cannot stand."

kj