Yeah, that’s what I thought. You object to anyone having combated slavery, and derisively call that effort “progressive.” Southrons are so easy to spot, and such an embarrassment to this forum.
Yeah, that's what I thought. As a fly goes straight for a pile of sh*t, so too do people immediately fly right to the slavery issue so they can "virtue signal" to the rest of us how much they are against it. That is not the point here.
Lost in all this is the fact that the Government was used as a weapon to force morality on people who did not want it, same as they are doing today at the behest of every progressive movement.
"There is too much sugar in people's drinks! Fine them or prohibit such drinks!
"Everyone should be forced to accept the goodness of "Gayness" so bake that cake or we will fine you by law!"
"Everyone should cut back their carbon footprint, to save planet earth, and if you don't do so, you need to be fined!"
"Vegetarian meals for the school kids!"
"Calling a transgender by other than their preferred pronoun constitutes a hate crime. We should put people in prison for hate crimes."
And so on. The notion that people who have morality different than that which is approved by liberal/progressives began with the Civil War. In fact, the aftermath of it was known as "the progressive era" and featured such ideas as banning alcohol, banning child labor, pushing for birth control and empowering women.
Now you may crow to the heavens how much you agree with what the "progressives" did regarding slavery, but the point remains that this entire business of using the government to force others to conform to liberal preferences, began with the Civil War.
And so did leviathan government power. Of course the age of corruption followed the Civil War as well.