the south has already launched itself to create something entirely new in the new world, a slave empire. the very idea of america is at risk. 81% of the electorate come out to vote. one of the highest turnouts in united states election history. the stakes were so high because it might have been the last election for a united states of america. lincoln is waiting on the telegraph to tell them just what the vote count is. look, you have to be nervous because you have a brand-new party. it has never won the presidency. you re only its second candidate.
jefferson s imperfect but his attempt to expand the definition of human liberty was in fact the struggle of that generation. that jefferson had been fighting tyranny both of autocrats and popes and prelays, control of the divine right of kings in the same way that the allies were fighting tyranny abroad. a case where the founding ideals were in a sense becoming global ones in an attempt as americans attempted to project force to make the world a better place. i grew up in tennessee, i grew up on missionary ridge, a battlefield. used to find balls in the yard. history is a very tactile thing here. but that doesn t change why the war was fought. the war was fought to preserve a slave empire. the 16th president of the united states in his first inaugural
unions? right. the big break, it was a big break in 1948 during the progressive party was formed and the cold war. walter riewfer who was a socialist drove the communists out of the cio because they were agents of the soviet union, which was a slave empire and our enemy. right. sweeney and these guys, like you say, van jones doesn t go away, the communists don t go away. the progressives stayed, and now they just embraced it. well, the president says i m a progressive. he s not a marxist. it s made out of a marxist stew. but do i have it right? the difference between evolution, what you were going for in the 60s was revolution. progressives is evolution. in a nut shell. conservatives guide everything they do by looking at the past,
unions? right. the big break, it was a big break in 1948 during the progressive party was formed and the cold war. walter riewfer who was a socialist drove the communists out of the cio because they were agents of the soviet union, which was a slave empire and our enemy. right. sweeney and these guys, like you say, van jones doesn t go away, the communists don t go away. the progressives stayed, and now they just embraced it. well, the president says i m a progressive. he s not a marxist. it s made out of a marxist stew. but do i have it right? the difference between evolution, what you were going for in the 60s was revolution. progressives is evolution. in a nut shell. conservatives guide everything they do by looking at the past,