ncc74656's Journal: A possible explanation for the rise of the Copperheads

Have you forgotten? They apparently have:

September 11 -- what year? 30 percent of Americans don't know

Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.

While the country is preparing to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and shocked the world, 95 percent of Americans questioned in the poll were able to remember the month and the day of the attacks, according to Wednesday's edition of the newspaper.

But when asked what year, 30 percent could not give a correct answer.

Of that group, six percent gave an earlier year, eight percent gave a later year, and 16 percent admitted they had no idea whatsoever.

It's interesting to note the similarities between the Copperheads of ~150 years ago and today's Democrats:

Copperheads nominally favored the Union but they strongly opposed the war, for which they blamed abolitionists, and they demanded immediate peace and resisted the draft laws. They wanted Lincoln and the Republicans ousted from power, seeing the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican values with his despotic and arbitrary actions.

Some Copperheads tried to persuade Union soldiers to desert. They talked of helping Confederate prisoners of war seize their camps and escape. They sometimes met with Confederate agents and took their money. The Confederacy encouraged their activities whenever possible, and at one point Confederate agents controlled portions of the Democratic party in states such as Connecticut. Most Democratic party leaders, however, repelled Confederate advances.

Replace the Confederates with the Islamofascists and Lincoln with W, and you have a not-too-far-off-the-mark description of the present situation.

Of course there's always the other group

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Who thinks that both the Republicrats and Demonicans are a bunch of cowards who couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag- let alone fight a war against a genocidal enemy against which only nuclear genocide would work.

Also

[pudge]

Let's not forget the Europeans though Lincoln was an ignorant yahoo who was bent on war and destruction.