Tag: The Conspirator

Some say our country has never been more divided politically than it is now. My parents practically disowned me when they found out I went to the convention riots in Chicago in 1968. When my father got a thank-you note from the CPUSA for the work he'd done circulating a petition to put them on the ballot in 1972, that was the last straw. My father and I have the same name. None of us remember the Civil War. You want to talk about divided? It was about Mary Surratt, a boarding-house owner with Confederate sympathies who was hanged for being a part of the conspiracy that resulted in President Abraham Lincoln's assassination even though she almost certainly had nothing to do with it. We don't talk about politics, religion or money. I've never understood why the most vocal anticommunists like to talk about politics so much. After you vote, love your bothers and sisters no matter how they voted.