Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
~Jack London, The Iron Heel (1908)
Title says it all.
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Very true! Being a lawyer for the railroads, Lincoln helped to bring this about.
It really is how the Republican Party moved from being an anti-slavery party, to the party of big business, not anymore concerned about racial justice.
And yes, playing to racial prejudice, and playing poor whites and poor blacks off against each other is how the present situation has come to be.
Unfettered Gilded Age Industrial Capitalism was a disaster, and today the Republican Party aided by all of its think tanks is trying to take us back to that.
And then some see there as being ties, not just to John Wilkes Booth and a Confederate Spy Ring, but also to Lincoln's own party and cabinet, specifically the Secretary of State William H. Seward.
mrlincolnswhitehouse.org
abraham-lincoln-history.org
The idea being that Lincoln never want to be punitive against the South. Where as Seward did, the idea being to crush the South to make it a more docile and submissive consumer base for Northern manufacturing. Capitalism works this way.
SJG
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