In our sadly divided country, with liberals and progressives hating on conservatives and traditionalists (and vice versa), it's hard to see a way forward for a truly "United" States of America. If anything, we're presently the Dis-United States of America, and it looks as if that's going to get worse before (if possible) it gets better.
I thought it might be worth remembering, this morning, what such disunity can mean.
Irving Gordon published his song "Two Brothers" in 1951. It became widely popular, and was adopted by the Walt Disney Company as part of its "American Adventure" section of the World Showcase at Epcot in Walt Disney World, Florida, opening in 1971.
I first heard the version performed by the Johnny Mann Singers in 1963, and have loved the song ever since. However, the version performed by Ali Olmo for Walt Disney World has a beauty and resonance all its own, and I thought that was probably the best version to bring to you this morning.
Listen, and think, and - if you're so inclined - say a prayer that we don't see this again in our country.
Peter
We are divided, certainly. However, what is coming is not another War Against the States; but a Second American Revolution. Remember, the Colonists were divided too; roughly by thirds between Pattiots, Tories and apathy.
ReplyDeleteOur ancestors threw off the yoke of an oppressive government, it's coming time for us to do the same.
Boat Guy
1/3 is supposedly French Revolution numbers, not America's.
DeleteAround 40-45% is colonists estimated support for the Patriots, and an estimated 15-25% took up arms for the Patriot cause, not 3%. Washington's Army was 3.5%, but that % doesn't count militia, navy, marines, privateers, etc.
For context, 15% of US adults were in uniform in WW2, and that'd probably drop to 10% or so once accounting for minors.
And 15-20% were Loyalists, so they were at a 2 or 3 to 1 deficit.
Tories had their own Militias too. There were Robert Rogers Queens Own Rangers up North, Major Ferguson's militia and Tarleton's Raiders in the South. It was a Civil War at times
ReplyDeleteThe big daddy of civil wars is found in Matthew 10:34-36.
ReplyDeleteWhat many fear is soon to come is a battle similar to the French Revolution of the 1790s. Some will fight to restore,l their country as originally conceived. Others will fight because they've swallowed the propaganda espoused by the wicked with great ambition to enlarge and centralize their power. These are two diametrically opposed ideologies.
Yes but Loyalist militias were still far less in number of bodies than Patriots. And many Loyalists left the 13 colonies for British Canada, Caribbean holdings, etc., during and after the Revolutionary War.
ReplyDeletePoint was parallels to present day -- we're far away from these #s.