Bill's Comments

I have been reading an excellent history on the ten years preceding the Civil War and the war itself. The political and social issues of those days are frighteningly analogous to those of our current society. A number of issues could seemingly replace slavery as the cause celebre, but right now it is the issue of who is in charge of our lives, the government or ourselves and the resulting financial disaster.

It is entirely conceivable that the red states will eventually call a Constitutional convention or will call for succession leaving the blue states to their unsupportable policies. Should that occur it could indeed start a civil war, but I would not count on the survival of the blue states. The red states are who they are pillaging. When a government dominated by a political elite not answerable to the people continues to do as it pleases, the final answer may be revolution if the course does not change.