Sep 23, 2021

Ken Burns: New U.S. Civil War Possible


 

 Documentary maker Ken Burns, speaking about the political divide in the U.S. to The Independent:


“It’s really serious. There are three great crises before this: the Civil War, the Depression, and World War II. This is equal to it,” Mr Burns replied.

Mr Burns referenced a speech by Abraham Lincoln in 1838 about whether the United States would be crushed by some trans-Atlantic military giant, in which the future president said:

 

 

 

“Never. All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we will live forever or die by suicide.”
 “And we’re, you know, we’re looking right down the muzzle of that gun,” Mr Burns said.

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