[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp to HangUpNow: "That is another extremely relevant point.
Yes, Teddy Roosevelt is known for interfering with the Crony Capitalism that had been going on since.... well.... since Lincoln. "

Any suggestion that "crony capitalism" in America somehow started with Lincoln, or was illegally supported by him, is ludicrous to the max.
It only shows the absurd lengths which pro-Confederates will go in creating fantasies to support their nonsense.

[DiogenesLamp]

Any suggestion that "crony capitalism" in America somehow started with Lincoln, or was illegally supported by him, is ludicrous to the max.

The evidence is indicating otherwise. Sure we had corruption in government before, but nothing on the scale that we saw in the immediate aftermath of the war.

That was the most corrupt period in US History.