Democracy Was the First Casualty: Decade of the 1850's + Trump Era, Side-by-Side

Saturday March 21st at 5:00 PM CT
Democracy Was the First Casualty:
The Decade of the 1850's and the Trump Era,
Side-by-Side
College of Complexes, free speech forum
Meeting # 3,857 - college regular Tim Bolger
What can we learn from history?? – Tim Bolger will develop parallels and reflections on what needs to be done.
The speaker stats that "The American Civil War began the moment Americans decided democracy was only legitimate when it delivered the “correct” outcome. Decades before cannon fire, the country normalized contempt for compromise, weaponized grievance, and taught itself to believe that defeat was fraud, tyranny, or betrayal. By placing the moral rot of the 1850s side by side with the Trump era, this talk makes a blunt claim: America is not flirting with crisis—it is repeating a pattern it already knows leads to catastrophe. The most dangerous lie in American politics is not that the other side is wrong, but that they are illegitimate. Once a nation accepts that idea, the question is no longer whether the system survives, but how much damage is done before it breaks."
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