Indeed. I love asking Southernphobes how can you be for the liberty of slaves while enslaving your brothers? Of course, you have to explain it to them first, and then their little wheels turn for so long trying to wrap their little minds around it I just laugh and walk away.
“Of course, you have to explain it to them first, and then their little wheels turn for so long trying to wrap their little minds around it I just laugh and walk away.”
Plus too much Socialism has killed most of their brain synapses so they can’t make the connection. :-)
I know I shouldn’t answer that snot, but I will try. During the war a captured Southerner was asked, “if you don’t own slaves, why are you fighting?” The response: “Because you are here.” Back then, when men were men, when an invading army crossed into your land, you fought back. As opposed to today...
That would help.
Since a slight majority of Southerners opposed the secession and Confederate government, your remark about there being “Southernphobes” is a strawman argument based upon a myth of Sotuhern solidarity. The Home Guard enslaved and killed Southerners in wholesale lots. Wrap your mind around that.
Speaking of "little minds", yours seems to be a bit, ah, "challenged".
In fact, setting metaphors aside, there's no real comparison between pre-Civil War slavery and today's much lamented "slavery" to Big Government.
As for that Civil War, which the Slave Power provoked, started (at Fort Sumter), formally declared (May6, 1861) and used to invade & ravage every Union state & territory they could reach... well, it ended with more liberty and justice for all, especially the former slave-owners.