tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post3935952825129854125..comments2024-03-28T16:58:17.705-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Trump and the Press: A MetaphorGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-5372953723693543962016-06-10T14:12:39.230-04:002016-06-10T14:12:39.230-04:00What makes things inevitable isn't history. It...What makes things inevitable isn't history. It's human pride and mistakes and vice. After all Grim, you write about them 70% of the time on your own blog, yet you refuse to recognize it for what it is and what it will lead to. Or perhaps you just don't like the way I word it as inevitable.<br /><br />But make no mistake, the fate of humans is inevitable because humans are humans. Try not to blame it on historical whatevers. History didn't make your choices for you.Ymar Sakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-46934481904426319102016-06-10T14:09:59.004-04:002016-06-10T14:09:59.004-04:001830 was where early reports of lynchings by slave...1830 was where early reports of lynchings by slave lord paid activists could be recorded. It's not as if this was a phenomenon limited to the 30s or due to Andrew Jackson's admin. After he was no longer President or leader of the Democrats, if he ever was such, the slave lords continued to harass abolitionists and successfully silenced them. As the Left silenced the Tea Party. But that doesn't prevent a war, if anything, it makes one inevitable.<br /><br />You might as well tally up the mob violence in 1840. Or 1850. Or 1855. Or the Caning of Charles Summer. The data was always available for those with the eyes to see them. Just as they are available even now. The fact that people refuse to see, is their problem and mistake.Ymar Sakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-5390983861316206002016-06-09T14:33:39.765-04:002016-06-09T14:33:39.765-04:00It's a ramp up to war...
If you mean the Civi...<i>It's a ramp up to war...</i><br /><br />If you mean the Civil War, that was thirty years later. You're packing a lot of 'historical inevitability' into an analysis tying together events that far apart. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-85500697290523748772016-06-09T11:54:28.725-04:002016-06-09T11:54:28.725-04:00Similar things happened in 1830. It's a ramp u...Similar things happened in 1830. It's a ramp up to war, which becomes inevitable when people look at mob violence and dismiss it as something inferior to war. Often times, as in the French Revolution, mob violence is just a symptom of a larger problem.Ymar Sakarnoreply@blogger.com