Learning from Lincoln

His words are as important today as when he spoke them

A lot has changed since Honest Abe was in the White House but a lot has stayed the same.

The nation looks a lot different today than it did when President Abraham Lincoln sat in the White House but there are a lot of things that are the same. Things look very bleak right now. Crime is up. Civility is nonexistent. Families are being torn apart by politics. We can’t seem to talk to people whose opinions differ from our own. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights released a report that found:

Seventy-eight percent of voters believe American democracy is under major threat now;

Fifty-three percent believe in the next four to five years America may no longer be a democracy;

Sixty-two percent believe racism against Black people is a big problem in today’s society;

Sixty-nine percent of those polled are dissatisfied with the direction in which the country is headed;

Fifty-four percent fear America is on the path to another civil war.

I know people who are just itching to fight in another civil war. There is something incredibly seductive about fighting an epic battle. MAGA people don’t see Donald Trump’s electoral loss as a lost election; the election was stolen. Some think American democracy is already over. To many of these people, Democrats are not just wrong, they are evil…