Emancipation, as a "fit and necessary war measure for suppressing... [the] rebellion" of "States and parts of States... Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines...
It is interesting that the Republican Party has pretty much morphed into an anti-progressive party beholden to the wealthy. Nikki Haley even seems to have joined the "Civil War was about States' Rights, and slavery wasn't the issue" revisonists. How many in her party, especially in teh South, agree with her and actively support disenfranchisement? Not that the Democratic Party hasn't morphed too, and now, like the Republicans, now chases the support of the wealthy again.
How similar is the path taken by political parties and individuals in the USA today following the path of the Roman Republic before Octavian, and will it succumb to a dictatorship?
The Republican party has been beholden to the wealthy since the Civil War, and anti-progressive since Taft. I would say "since McKinley" but for the accident of TR. It's pretty much a given that these characteristics will describe one of the major parties.
They Republicans are less beholden to the wealthy than they have been at any time since Lincoln. The wealthy believe that immigration should be safe, illegal, and common. They also believe in free trade and regressive taxation, and hate redistribution, even to the herrenvolk. Most of them also believe in public decorum, sacrosanct property, and the rule of law. The MAGA faction believes in none of these, and the MAGA folk are in charge of the Republican Party these days.
It is interesting that the Republican Party has pretty much morphed into an anti-progressive party beholden to the wealthy. Nikki Haley even seems to have joined the "Civil War was about States' Rights, and slavery wasn't the issue" revisonists. How many in her party, especially in teh South, agree with her and actively support disenfranchisement? Not that the Democratic Party hasn't morphed too, and now, like the Republicans, now chases the support of the wealthy again.
How similar is the path taken by political parties and individuals in the USA today following the path of the Roman Republic before Octavian, and will it succumb to a dictatorship?
The Republican party has been beholden to the wealthy since the Civil War, and anti-progressive since Taft. I would say "since McKinley" but for the accident of TR. It's pretty much a given that these characteristics will describe one of the major parties.
They Republicans are less beholden to the wealthy than they have been at any time since Lincoln. The wealthy believe that immigration should be safe, illegal, and common. They also believe in free trade and regressive taxation, and hate redistribution, even to the herrenvolk. Most of them also believe in public decorum, sacrosanct property, and the rule of law. The MAGA faction believes in none of these, and the MAGA folk are in charge of the Republican Party these days.