Sometimes it seems that history appears in strange mirror images. During the civil war, despite the democrats of the south seceding from the union, there were Unionist Democrats who sided with the republicans of the north, and some northern democrats aligned with the south.
But today, as republicans attempt to fracture the Union, it's duplicitous, unfaithful democrats who are siding with republicans. And while those democrats may deny it, their own actions underscore their lies and complicity.
And at the same time, there are former republicans who have given up on their failed party in favor of the democrats as the last best hope. I'd suspect that if this nation's and world survive our current challenges and crises, another reverse will occur.
So maybe history doesn't actually repeat itself, but it reflects itself in a series of inverse or opposable and contrary images in perpetuity?
Go figure.
Go figure.
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