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Lee'sGhost: "Watch. They won’t be able to help themselves.
It will only take a few minutes for them to start spewing hate simply because I spoke the truth.
Just like liberals."

Virtually everyone posting on Free Republic is not just "right of center" but "right of the center of the right" -- meaning we are the ones who support and vote for the most conservative of candidates to elected offices.
Of course, if that's "liberal" in your mind...

And truly, the only ones "spewing hate" and nonsense are you and your buddies.
The rest of us do our best to stick to the facts.

Lee'sGhost: "Lincoln and the Union — having forced federalism upon us — that put us on the downward slide toward socialism..."

That slide did not begin under Lincoln -- as has been pointed out here many times -- it began 100 years ago under the "Progressives", including Southerner President Woodrow Wilson, and with full-throated support from the solid Southern-Democrat South.

The South's transition from Liberal-Democrats to Conservative-Republicans began in 1964, and was not really completed until Bush vs Gore in 2000:

1936 -- Roosevelt (blue) vs. Landon (red):

2000 -- Bush (red) vs. Gore (blue)

Sorry you wasted time with unrelated charts, because you’re totally missing the point. I’m not saying that Lincoln was a progressive or socialist or anything of the kind. What I am saying is fact — by forcing the issue, Lincoln answered the question that had haunted or nagged the U.S. since it’s inception, were we a federalized country with a strong central government, or a collection of strong states with a weak central government that existed to address the handful of things outlined in the Constitution? Lincoln and the Union determined that it would be federalism. Federalism led to weakening of state rights and strong state governments which naturally lead to stronger and stronger central governance which, taken to its ultimate conclusion, allows socialism to thrive and for Marxists to be elected president.

Period.

Thank you Lincoln and Yankees.