Charlottesville 2017-- The last chapter of The Civil War or the beginning of a new one

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When did the Civil War begin?  Was it that morning when the South Carolina militia fired on Fort Sumpter in 1861, or were the seeds planted three centuries earlier, when the first Africans were commoditized into chattel to be used as "it's" new world owner directed.  When we put America's civil war in this historic long view, a different perspective emerges from that of today's headlines.  

We live in the moment that has been created by forces that most of us are barely aware of.  The choices of the moment, as they were during those months after Lincolns election, secession of Southern States and the spark that drove the country into war, forced those who had been brothers at West Point and fought together in previous wars to choose sides.  One of these was Robert E.Lee, descendant of the wife of our first President and who, like Thomas Jefferson, considered himself first a citizen of his state, and secondarily of the entity of the government of those states.

This essay is written in during a time that will be known as either an aberration, a short presidency of an individual who broke with the existing political structures, or of a man who set this most powerful country in the world on a new course.    



This comment section is an important historical document, as it is a poll of responses selected by NYTimesPicks, not of the general public, but of this paper's participating readership. This also represents the Democratic voting public.
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Example 1:The president is protecting Nazis and white supremacists. He's in violation of his oath to protect and defend the Constitution. Congress, it's time to invoke the Twenty-fifth Amendment. 5411 recommends

 ------ Ex2: The President asked a very important question today. Where does it stop? Once the statues of Lee and Jackson have been torn down. When will the social justice warriors ask to tear down every statue of former slave owners named Washington and Jefferson? 235 recommends ---------
How many of this 20 to 1 N.Y.T. consensus know that the Jewish liberal Mayor of Charlottesville voted to retain the Confederate statues and park names in question, and that this position is far from exclusively the province of white supremacists or the KKK.

 I love and respect The New York Times, but right now on this issue, with this President, whom I deplore on many levels, it and its readership have lost the quality of reasoned analysis, that has been our hallmark. 20 to 1 for using the 25th Amendment, one devised to remove a President disabled by physical or mental inability to function, compared to the impeachment procedure part of our constitution to remove one whose policies or behavior is politically abhorrent.