"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid."

[babylonsister]

That's the way it's appearing to me also.


http://www.ozy.com/2016/how-lincoln-fought-trumpism-in-the-1850s/71298?fb=OZY&type=cpc&aud=oldlib

How Lincoln Fought Trumpism in the 1850s

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Midway through the 19th century, the country surged with a new political force. Mostly made up of white Protestant working- and middle-class voters, this emerging bloc despised the elites, whom they felt had created a rigged system. They blamed the influx of migrants — namely Irish Catholics fleeing the potato famine of the mid-1840s — for a diversifying nation unlike the America of their youth. While these anti-establishment dissidents eventually formed the American Party, they began as state groups loosely affiliated by one universal nickname: the Know Nothings. As Mark Silk, a professor of religion in public life at Trinity University, puts it: “They easily could have said ‘Make America Great Again.’ ”

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[pbmus]

1. When you hire a degenerate to run your country

Anything goes...especially decorum

[elleng]

2. Hi, b'sis.

[babylonsister]

3. I know,

my friend. As my dear, recently deceased friend said to me often, "it'll be all right."

[Horse with no Name]

4. I'm worried that it won't be all right again

for a long time....