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In reply to the discussion: I crisscrossed America to talk to people whose views I disagreed with. I now have one certainty [View all]paleotn
(21,679 posts)That's why there can be no "rekindling of the open spirit of kinship" the author would like. Sorry to burst his bubble, but that ain't happening. About as likely as Nuremberg rally goers in 1934 suddenly deciding en masse that Nazism is illogical and destructive and resigning from the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
There is an evil that's lodged deep in the American psyche and far more prevalent in certain parts of the country. It's been there for a long, long time and no amount of kumbaya will change that. So if the "League of the South" wants to separate and go off and be apartheid South Africa, fine. Leave. Even if it were possible, I don't think the immense effort necessary to reach those goobers is worth the time and expense. We've been fighting this fight for decades, centuries really, and getting no where with them.