I have been rewatching Ken Burns' The Civil War on Netflix.
What strikes me is that the film does not portray people of the North and South as HATING each other. Yes, they were killing each other, but it does not come across to me as acts of hatred. Perhaps that's how it was, or maybe Ken just decided to portray it that way.
Our brewing civil war, on the other hand, appears to be quite different. Clearly many people on all sides truly HATE each other, and that suggests the next conflict will be exceptionally brutal, perhaps even genocidal.
And I'm not looking forward to finding out.
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