Got one or two things in the pipe, and then I'm going to get away from politics for a bit. It's still before the electoral vote acceptance thing when I write this, so I don't know how peaceful or violent things are going to stay, but there are other projects I want to work on, and I'm having trouble juggling this and the others.
Maybe my readers are too few and visit too rarely to notice the difference, but, y'know, just in case.
I'll still be around, reading and writing, but just not as much on here for a while. But before you decide to stop coming back, make sure a few weeks have passed since I posted this, so you can be sure I've cleared out my queue. I am interested in some scrutiny of my next religious post, which I plan to leave front and center for a time, for the sake of visibility, so if you haven't seen it come up yet, don't step out just yet.
But meanwhile...
I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner, or why I haven't seen it much elsewhere, but you know how they've been talking about how Trump is dividing the nation and we need to heal and reconcile and whatnot now that he's on his way out?
You know who else they said that about?
Lincoln.
Yes. Abraham Lincoln. The man who presided over an internal war that had been in the making since before our nation was founded. The man who realized the war was all but inevitable, and instead of sacrificing a limb just to lose the patient anyway, decided he was not going to let its fate be dictated by people who didn't want to play by the Constitution anymore.
So, all you progressives out there who only attend to a few mutually approved news sources, be careful which historical parallels you choose to draw. Don't like thinking of The Donald as a latter-day Freedmen's Party? Then it's time to reconsider some of the things that led you to your current mindset.
