Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin warned Tuesday in a video on social media that the United States is in a “pre-Civil War culture.”
In an Instagram video on Tuesday, Baldwin revealed that he watched Ken Burns’ “The Civil War” miniseries on PBS on Monday after returning from a trip. The Hollywood actor explained that he watched the documentary miniseries “without any explicable provocation” and “being purely subconscious.”
“Something told me, something led my hand to pick up the remote and turn on my television… and watch Ken Burns’ famous miniseries,” Baldwin told his social media followers. “And boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now.”
In his Instagram video, Baldwin acknowledged that there are “profound differences” between the political environment prior to the American Civil War and the current political environment in the United States; however, he warned that the United States is in a “very similar state” to the state the country was in prior to the Civil War.
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“When they describe things back then, politically, there are profound differences, of course, in terms of just history… and age, and what life was like back then, and cotton, and slavery, and Lincoln, and Robert E. Lee and so forth,” Baldwin stated. “But I look at the politics of it, of where people are in this country today, in the division and how they’re holding fast, and no one’s going to falter, no one’s going to break or compromise. And it’s bad.”
After detailing the current state of politics in the United States, the Hollywood actor noted that “it doesn’t seem likely right now” that the nation will be able to come together and “get anywhere.”
“Watching this show [‘The Civil War’] really reminded me how we are in a very similar state now, in a pre-Civil War culture, in a pre-Civil War environment,” Baldwin added. “It’s hard to believe.”
At the end of his Instagram video, Baldwin encouraged people to watch the “epic” and “remarkable” Civil War miniseries for themselves.
Source: American Military News
