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Negotiating the Civil War
An exercise in the absurd
When it comes to idiocy, Donald J. Trump is truly a trailblazer, a real conscientious objector in the war on ignorance. In a recent discussion regarding the Civil War, an issue brought to the front burner after Nikki Haley put her ignorance on full public display, Donald Trump offered that the Civil War “could have been negotiated.”
Let me repeat that. The Civil War could have been negotiated.
In Donald Trump’s alternate reality, everything is a deal. Everything can be negotiated. Everything is part of a give and take. Everything is business. I’m wondering if maybe we could negotiate a deal with Trump to put him behind bars a little sooner instead of dragging it out.
Trump fails to give any specifics about what he would have negotiated, which is par for the course when Trump blurts this nonsense out. To the mental midgets who believe everything he says, however, the net effect is that it makes civil war sound a little more palatable, if not a little more inviting.
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, slavery was the chief issue, although many would claim not the only issue. The South long resented the northern industrialists they depended on to sell their cotton and other crops to. Culturally the North and the South could not have been more…
