Didn't know where to post this but man, I so get it.
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Was it huge when there was a civil war, with less infrastructure? Was it huge on jan. 6?
During the Civil War we were less than half our current size. Maybe even a third the size. I can find maps that show our size but none that actual say what our land area was. I could calculate it, but I'm not. Also, we had about 10% of our current population.
So yea, we were quite a bit smaller back then.
But what about their clapback?! You weren't supposed to actually provide information to the contrary of their haughty and uninformed statement!!
Either way, I don't know what counts as huge. Even back then we still stretched from Maine to Florida to Texas, which is over 2500 miles at its longest. That's still pretty damn big. Still bigger than any country in Europe minus Russia.
I just wanted to give a comparison.
the population was also far more rural 1/3 of the entire population were farmers.
now 1% of the population is in farming.
Was it still huge?
January 6th only took place because the sitting president told his supporters to storm the capitol and said he'd back them. There are Americans who are fighting what's happening here and want to do more, but we are so disenfranchised disorganized that we really don't have a lot of options other than getting ourselves killed or imprisoned without changing anything.
Democrats are equivalent to most center-right parties in Europe. They have historically and continue to pay lip-service to left-leaning causes while quietly backing whatever the fascists want. Those of us who want to change things have no locus of power behind which to organize.
And re: The Civil War, it was a much smaller country then, and each side in the conflict was backed by elites with power and organizational capacity.
Billionaires also footed the bill to organize and bus in the J6 insurrection crowd. There was also a bunch of planning to mitigate normal security measures. And it still didn't work!
Are people really so out of touch that they think a few random people in Washington DC were able to try that on a whim?