Two articles that highlight the trajectory we in the States seem to be on:
Spain had a civil war in 1936 when its leftists turned violent and starting killing Christians and rightists. The American left is increasingly vile, censorious of Christian belief and practice, and violent. Deju vu all over again?
Orthodox blogger George Michalopulous looks at the issue from a historical perspective. There are those of us, myself included, who believe that the surrender at Appomattox didn't end the War Between the States. Michalopulos shows the divisions have existed since the beginning of the English colonies' existence, and that those divisions continue to the present day. As Jefferson Davis believed, "The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert it’s self, though it may be at another time and in another form. . . the contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.”
I will post Part II of Michalopulos' article as it appears.