A reminder huge divisions in ideology are nothing new to American history.
It has reached an explosive pitch these days though with the extreme radicals takeover of the democrat party and a good President that fights back. Rock; meet hard spot.
I’m all for bringing back dueling for Congress critters. Keep it classic though; single shot flintlock dueling pistols.
Big huge irreconcilable differences over the right way to do things are welcome, so long as you can define “right.” We cannot.
The unbreachable chasm between the 18th century and now is that they were fresh off a potboiling “Great Awakening” of Christian fervor which shook the populace to the core and literally transformed society. We, otoh, are in the midst of a lazy, rotting self indulgent slide where no ethical or intellectual impediment may stand in the way of SELF.
The ages, and thus the outcome of the struggles, could not be more different. Best thing you can hope for IS the “destruction of the republic”... ie, the breakup of the monster in DC into disparate parts. There is no rescuing this monster. Find a place to hide, or at least lay low, and forget the “patriotism” nonsense.
What you are in love with is a memory, not a present reality.
There should not have been an Obama administration.
Tell me which of the founders would have found a British subject/Kenyan national from Indonesia to be a natural born citizen of the USA.
They chose their words carefully, they did not choose native born, they rejected Hamilton’s suggestion of “born a citizen”, they chose natural born citizen as the most restrictive term, someone who was NATURALLY a citizen because they could not possibly be anything else.
Anyone born something else is NOT a natural born citizen.