The Squelchistani Crank

OK, now that we have had the chance to psychologically recover somewhat from Section A of this particular blog post grouping, we can get into Section B (which isn’t much of an improvement). Of course, before we get into that, I ought to provide a recap, which includes the link to the prior section… Part 1 – A Greater Appalachian Spring Part 2 – The Only-Jesus Club Part 3 – Juniors & Seniors (Including The Mint Variety) Part 4 – A Mostly Expected Counter-Counterculture Response Part 5 – The Despot Heart & Vassal To Two Confederacies (Section A) If everyone is ready to continue, I will lead on. \-\-\ Going back to the previous section, as one can easily figure out, the informal session of the NBR states – along with a handful of other states – was a delicate situation for everyone involved, yet in a roundabout way the Old Confederacy did have a chance to slowly but peacefully slip away from the Squelchistani Union thanks to Abraham Lincoln: in spite of a legitim...

Once again, I’m back for another talk through the Impossible Divide, concentrating on the Republican political party’s history and sub-cultural influencers, neither of which is pleasant when one thinks about it (and will get worse once this post is complete). Of course, I ought to provide a recap of the series so far, for all that have forgotten what I have written previously: Part 1 – A Greater Appalachian Spring Part 2 – The Only-Jesus Club Part 3 – Juniors & Seniors (Including The Mint Variety) Part 4 – A Mostly Expected Counter-Counterculture Response OK, now that we have that cleared up, we can move onto the next segment. Which once again, is going to be anything but pleasant for those reading along (and it will be long enough that I decided to split it in two sections)… Where I had left off in the past blog post, I was talking about a pair of incidents that would draw the Evangelical ideology back into the political sphere and would eventually allow them to almost...