What Goes Around Comes Around
History doesn't repeat itself, people do...
It is 1867. Andrew Johnson, being Vice President under Abraham Lincoln who was just assassinated, is now president. A war that claimed 620,000 lives, north and south, is over. But is it?
The legacy of Lincoln’s life and death, the emancipation proclamation, and other laws and legislation, is under threat. His vice president is a conservative southerner. Yes, Lincoln played political football, too.
He placed a southerner on his ticket to help his election at a time when he thought it might lead the south away from a secessionist movement. It didn’t. And now, Johnson has become the darling of the conservative southerners. He is dismantling Lincoln’s legacy brick by brick and he is now, as president, doing something that will make at least the death of any union soldier superfluous. He is refusing to give the black man the vote. He is blocking the process and progress of the reconstruction of the south.
That’s all the background you are going to get. For details go Googling.
The point I am making… yeah, yeah, I know, come on already… what is my point?
Politics is confusing. Believe me, politics is meant to be, if nothing else, confusing. In confusion there is opportunity to tell a story that has little to do with fact or truth.
Those of us who fear that the hard won changes we have achieved over the last years will be wiped out by the grandstand grab of wealthy white men, please take note.Use your brain to descramble the confusion and the tricks.
Look, I started this blog with the given, “What goes around comes around.” However, I think when it goes around to come around, it can get a little better, even if Tevya in Fiddler on the Roof would have said, “Of course, it can also get a little worse.”
Hey, that's Life!
Wait a minute! I have a great idea! You want to stop feeling lost and alienated and hopeless? This Saturday, January 21 get on a bus to Washington, D.C. or go to your town square and stand up and be counted. I promise you'll feel better!
I know I'm right! Right? Of course, RIGHT!!
Love, SJ