[ought-six]

“If the Founders envisioned a republic where a crooked drone class could lie, cheat and rabble rouse their way into a rebellion for the idea that human beings are property you might be right.”

(Sigh.) The Founders created a republic in which the individual states were co-equals, retaining much of their powers and rights, giving up only an enumerated few to a federal government whose purpose was to serve the interests of the UNITED states themselves; other than those rights and powers given to the federal government, limited as they were, all other powers, rights and privileges were retained by the states and the People. Lincoln was well known to have disagreed vehemently with that, as he was a very vocal proponent of the idea of a dominant federal government exercising control over subordinate states.

And, oh, by the way: What “crooked, drone class” are you talking about? Hollywood producers?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Lincoln believed in the Founders' concept of a federal republic where the states were sovereign in their realm and the general government was sovereign in its realm. Believe it or not, there's a middle ground between the total centralization many leftists desire today and the self-serving anarchy the secession wished to promote. That middle ground is what Lincoln preserved.

And, oh, by the way: What “crooked, drone class” are you talking about? Hollywood producers?

You need to read about the dirty tricks the politicians used to gain a secession in Georgia and Tennessee. Evidence that the Democrats have always been the party of political corruption and mendacity.

And I think that drone class is an apt name of a class that got rich on the sweat of human property.