Ha! No, I only assume Beck reads my posts, and that's where he got the idea! ;-)
HangUpNow: "Lincoln, like Wilson answered to and wound up enforcing the will of the economic elite. 600,000 lives worth "
So, like DiogenesLamp, you are a secret Marxist railing against "the rich" or "the 1%" or "economic elites" while posing as a conservative defender of the Confederacy?
In fact Wilson was Virginia born, son of a slave-holder and was a young boy during the Civil War, when he met General Lee, and saw Union troops marching through South Carolina.
So Wilson's First World War plan for "peace without victory" over Germany doubtless reflects the terms he wished the South had received.
Wilson's political progressivism reflected his times (and ours to a degree): both racist and statist.
Lincoln was a different man of a different era.
HangUpNow: "600,000 lives worth (NOT including the maimed, the widowed, the orphaned, and the economic disastrous effect upon the South for 100 years.)"
All those lives & injuries should properly be blamed on those secessionists who first started the war, then refused to surrender until forced into "unconditional surrender", when much better term for the South could have been negotiated at earlier points of the war.
HangUpNow: "Btw, your "ape" comment is uncalled for and incendiary. "
But I only took it from one of your fellow pro-Confederate posters.
"Ape Lincoln" was used by secessionists during Civil War along with "Black Republicans" to describe how secessionists felt about them.
So why would you object to something they believed appropriate?
HangUpNow: "But I guess that just your clumsy, un-clever way of implying those who opposed Lincoln's tyranny and monumental feral overreach disliked blacks and supported slavery."
No, slave-holder secessionists often loved their black slaves, as DNA studies today prove, but only as slaves, not as freed-men or women.
HangUpNow: "Well gee -- that's mighty bourgeoisie of you."
And there you go with that Marxist-talk again!
So you really are a Democrat poser, false-flagger pretending to be jess ordinary Southern conservative folk.
So why not just tell us the truth about who you are and why you come here spreading Marxism?
HangUpNow: "Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, LBJ, and 0blah-blah are ALL kindred political spirits."
No, Lincoln was the Republican, a genuine conservative attacked by Democrats who started & prosecuted Civil War until they had no poor white men left to fight with.
HangUpNow: "Today we are still paying for the tyranny, social, and economic aftermath of... "
...of Democrats starting, declaring and prosecuting war against conservative constitutional values, as they continue doing to this very day.
Interesting treatise on “Ape Lincoln”. Did you happen to see the grief the author received in the comments? It seems that the author (David Yeagley) is an indian (feather not dot) and his contemporaries felt he went off the reservation (so to speak) with his commentary.
Sometimes you can’t win for losing ;’}
This is another line of thought that belongs squarely in the "Is this guy a kook?" Category.