Alright, Neo-Confederate.
I really love our conversations - in your pithy trollish ways, you have a knack for bringing out the main fault line that has divided American politics since not only Civil War times, but since its Founding, frankly.
Here on Team Blue: the America which can trace its lineage back to Enlightenment thought. The pro-democracy America, which has always carried with it a healthy skepticism of religious and hereditary claims. Which has continually fought for the expansion of human rights and personal liberties, which strives toward equality and inclusion under a banner of national unity. Which is best expressed in the elegant phrase, "With liberty and justice for all."
And over here on Team Red: Those whom the Enlightenment missed. Who remain mired in religious superstition and resentments, eager to partition themselves from the rest of America with "states' rights" (and failing that, overt treason), buoyed by a politics of cheap shots taken at the poor, at immigrants, at minorities, at Native Americans, at the enslaved and formerly enslaved. The politics of "I got mine," which can also be phrased as "Liberty for me, not for thee."
The more things change, the more they really stay the same.
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