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Abraham Lincoln. He did what he believed was the right thing to do. He ignored the vagaries of public opinion and endured scandal, bad press, mockery, and elitism.
I see the Civil War as being paradigmatic of our continual internal struggle with the two major mindsets of the population. The hardest thing to do is hold our Union together and ensure its survivability into the future. Polarization as a result of ill-formed opinion and politicalized allegiances, wishful thinking, and anti-government polemic is endemic to our society. The cycle has repeated itself over and over again - it's our perverse destiny to be at war primarily with ourselves. A strong executive with an historical vision is job one.
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