The Center Cannot Hold
Title is a quote from Yeats "Second Coming". Surprisingly, I've been reading poetry lately - NOT like me, at all. Many, on both the Extreme Left and on the Non-Conservative Right (what we Conservatives like to call RINOS), are expressing dismay at the polarization of the American public . It's not as though this is an unusual thing - we've been sharply divided before: American Independence - few Americans realize just how popular our connection with England was - fully 1/3 of the population supported it. Another 1/3 were Revolutionaries. The rest sat on the fence, waiting to see which side would prevail. Federalists vs. the Original Confederacy - it was a long and contentious fight to Constitutionalize. Civil War, including the Reconstruction Period. Populism - the original Uprising of the Deplorables. Anarchy - deliberate use of assassination and bombings to promote Leftist aims. The anarchists of that time were allied with the Wobblies and other ra...