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Civil War historian and newspaper columnist Bill Marvel again sits in the left chair. He doesn’t fit neatly into any political category, but agreed to appear on the show again to discuss political polarization in the America today and compare it to polarization in 1860.
Bill says he doesn’t fit anymore on the left, not because his views have changed, but because the Democrat Party has shifted dramatically to the left, making him appear center-right. We discuss specific examples of that.
Speaking of the tentative subject for Bill’s 20th book on the Civil War, he says that today’s political conflict and the one in 1860 both “started with an election that no one would accept.”
Bill says ignorance of history today due to the poor state of our public schools, prevents the public from realizing how quickly a society can collapse.
Bill reflected on a recent spate of letters to the editor in the Conway Daily Sun which lump the two of us as ideological twins, and suggested it was an orchestrated effort. When I questioned him about that he said, “Unlike the clairvoyant cognoscenti of the millennial mob, I don’t know."
I love that impromptu phrase.
Conversation then ranged from the Rodney King incident to the Michael Brown incident to the George Floyd incident comparing and contrasting the incidents themselves and media reaction to them.
The producer asks who Joe Biden may pick for a running mate and we discuss those possibilities at some length.
We also discuss gun control and the 2nd Amendment in the context of leftist threats to ban guns.
