America's Second Civil War?

Sam Smith -  Although the media is treating current major events as it does normally, we should at least discuss whether we are in the midst of something we haven't seen since the Civil War. At no other time in our history has our status as a democratric republic been in so much danger. 

We have a convicted crook in the White House who is violating the Consitution and other laws. As during the Civil War, a key  issue is ethnic suppression and even good folk seem to be downplaying the significance of this rise of hatred in our official policy. In addition our president asserts that he gets to determine what is proper including the invasion of other countries. 

As a reporter now in his 70th year of journalism, I feel it is fair to say that I've seen nothing like this before. Not only is the president engaged in evil, he is winning the support of the Supreme Court and enjoying the failure of Congress to do anything about it. 

We have had evil leaders in the past but not since the Civil War have we had so many in our culture willing to accept such uncivility and illegality. If we continue to do so, America - and all it has stood for - will be gone.  We will have lost the Second Civil War.