Martin discusses the significance of the anniversary of the start of the Civil War with the firing on Ft. Sumter.  How the war, which focused on the elimination of slavery, was also a war about class power, in this case, the Southern elite.  The slave owners were determined to hold power and economic power by keeping people enslaved.  Once the war ended, the next approach was to disenfranchise the newly freed Americans through Jim Crow.  This was successful for almost a century until the rise of the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr.   With civil rights came again the war on poverty which was truly an attempt at equality among the classes.  This attempt was ultimately thwarted in many ways with the rise of the Republican party persuading Southern Democrats to switch.  The rise of partisan politics, the Tea Party and eventually MAGA has been the continuation of trying to maintain and expand the 1% of society.  Like their plantation forebears, these politicians have managed to persuade some of the yeomanry to "arms" on their behalf.   While not exactly an overt war, it is nonetheless a war on equality: economic, rights and social standing.  This has spilled into the 2024 election.  Holding the funds for Ukraine, under the idea guise of border safety (in spite of a bipartisan compromise earlier this year) has endangered not Ukraine, but the standing of the United States.  The Gazan war and the extreme right government in Israel has furthered endangered the west.  Israel's attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria has once again directly brought in the United States into conflict.  Oddly enough, the need for funds for Ukraine and Israel are hostage due to the erosion of the Republican Party.

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