The left has to change history to fit its false reality.
A central theme of “1984” is that totalitarian governments try to change the past.
The North did not fight the Civil War to end slavery.
The Republican Party was founded to end slavery.
Why didn't (and don't) all those oppressed people build an "America" in the crap places they came from?
Amazing how this person has so much influence and authority.
I remember when Shelby Foote stated that the Civil War was not about slavery and he was greeted hisses from the left.
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“However, on January 1, 1863, President Lincoln changed the context of the war with the Emancipation Proclamation.”
And afterward, Lincoln added another slave state to the Union.
That is why I usually avoid the American Thinker.
Both sides tend to rewrite history when it is to their advantage.
Be sure to thank Nimrata Randhawa for getting this history erasing ball rolling.
Attempt? It is not merely an attempt! It is actual! Our once proud nation, according to the democrats, never has been great and therefore can never be great again! It is now unpatriotic to be patriotic!
For the next three years, the North was fighting to put an end to the institution of slavery and to bring the rebel states back into the fold.
No it wasn't. The EP was strictly a war measure. Lincoln went miles out of his way to ensure that it freed not a single slave. He even went so far as to make clear that this did not free any slaves either in the slave states which remained in the Union or in Confederate territory that was then occupied by Union forces.
Let's not forget that the South initiated the secession because of the fear that President Lincoln and the North would abolish slavery in the first place.
Let's not forget that this is false. Of the original 7 seceding states, only 4 issued declarations of causes. Of those, 3 listed reasons other than the Northern states' refusal to enforce the fugitive slave clause of the US Constitution which was actually unconstitutional and which did provide the seceding states with a sound legal argument that it was the Northern states which had violated the compact between them. Those reasons given were overwhelmingly the economic exploitation of the Southern states by the Northern states via partisan sectional legislation.
The 5, arguably 6, states of the Upper South did not secede until Lincoln chose to start a war to impose a government upon the seceding states which they did not consent to. They obviously were not seceding over slavery.
Lest anybody be confused, the Northern dominated Congress passed a resolution explicitly stating that they were not fighting over slavery. The Northern dominated Congress also passed and the president signed and several states ratified and Lincoln endorsed in his inaugural address, the Corwin Amendment which would have expressly protected slavery by constitutional amendment effectively forever. The original 7 seceding states rejected this express protection of slavery forever. Enough with the false propaganda that either secession or the war were "about" slavery.
“Don’t laugh off the left’s attempts to change history”
Not just the Left, but Neocons here who claim that the Ukrainian Nazis don’t exist...and then ignore all the prior articles on these same Nazis.
The left is on the verge of criminalizing being white.
The left are the slave holders. This dumb bi%#h is a slave of the DNC.
That's why the universal answer to a trendy social ill is: "Take the guns away from those mean old white people!"