Terrible Historical Analogies - Part XXXVI

This Richard Mourdock looks like a piece of work:

Referencing Lincoln’s speech, Mourdock said that as long as nearly half of Americans don’t pay taxes, “we are a house divided” that is presumably on the point to another fight, this time between the rich and the poor:

MOURDOCK: What he meant by that was that slavery was either going to be totally eliminated from the United States or it was no longer just going to be restricted to the Southern states, it was going to go everywhere. I am here to suggest to you that we are in a house divided. You know this past April, when our federal taxes were paid, 47 percent — 47 percent — of all American households paid no income tax. In fact, half of that 47 percent almost, actually got tax money back from the government that they never paid -– because a few years ago we revised the welfare program to make it part of the tax code. When 47 percent are paying no income taxes — they do pay Social Security — but they are not paying income taxes, and 53 percent are carrying the load, we are a house divided.

So, does this mean the homeless are going to set upon us with their stuffed shopping carts in a slow-motion replay of Pickett's Charge? And the righteous Republicans (who hate paying taxes even more than the homeless do) - are they going to respond with muskets and Minnie balls? The past is a hazy guide to the future, but no one should EVER want to emulate those dark Civil War days.