Democrats = Copperheads?

Occasionally I browse through Wikipedia for fun.  Understanding its editorial process, I know not to assume everything written in there is fair, non-partisan or accurate.  But, it is a great place to gather initial research and provide a starting point for further research.

Today I stumbled upon a piece of history that might describe today’s events if we changes some of the words slightly…

During the American Civil War (1861-1865) Iraq War, the Copperheads Democrats nominally favored the Union but strongly opposed the war, for which they blamed abolitionists Rumsfeld, Cheney and Rice, and they demanded immediate peace and resisted draft laws funding. They wanted Lincoln Bush and the Republicans ousted from power, seeing the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican democratic values with his despotic and arbitrary actions.

Some Copperheads Democrats tried to persuade Union soldiers to desert. They talked of helping Confederate Iraqi/Al Qaeda prisoners of war seize their camps and escape. They sometimes met with Confederate Islamic Radical agents and took money. The Confederacy Islamic Radicals encouraged their activities whenever possible.^[1] Most Some Democratic party leaders, however, repelled Confederate Islamic Fundamentalist advances.

I found the similarities between the Copperheads and Democrats amazingly close.  But back in the 1800’s, groups like the Copperheads were handled much differently.

The Copperheads sometimes talked of violent resistance, and in some cases started to organize. They never actually made an organized attack, though. As war opponents, Copperheads were suspected of disloyalty, and Lincoln often had their leaders arrested and held for months in military prisons without trial.

Anyway, maybe the comparison is a stretch, but I still found it all quite similar to today’s current events.