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Lee's Ghost: "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."

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.