[DiogenesLamp]

One has to view the federal government as a criminal organization. That’s the only way it makes sense, that’s the only way to approach a rectification. Without that, with thinking that there are just some adjustments to be made in the Republican or Democrat balances in the House and Senate, nothing will happen.

The government is a means of swindling the American people of taxes, promising to address their issues, but that’s like a fraud scheme designed to promise fixes to one’s house until they get the down payment and disappear into the mist.

Civil War ping. This is how the corrupt government, controlled by powerful rich people in the North, started the civil war.

The South was cutting off their money, so they invaded.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "Civil War ping.
This is how the corrupt government, controlled by powerful rich people in the North, started the civil war."

Southern Democrats had no problem with Federal powers enforcing fugitive slave laws in free states, or Crazy Roger Tawney's SCOTUS making lawful slaveholders' unlimited "sojourning" with slaves into free states, or Federal postmasters preventing anti-slavery literature from being delivered in the South -- all that they were fine wil.

Southern Democrats in the 1850s were also notoriously corrupt, big spenders, internationalists and focused on their own sectional interests.
That's why Republicans in 1860 won election based on their promises to end Democrats' corruption, over-spending, and globalist focus -- as opposed to Republicans putting American workers first.

So, when Democrats were voted out of office in 1860, they immediately did what Democrats often do and are again doing today -- they effectively declared nullification, secession and war against the United States.

[Noumenon]

Rich men north of Richmond