You blame Boothe for a "strong central government"? Rather than the guy that created such coast to coast massive upheaval, and birthed our modern FedZilla?
You know, when I was young, we were taught about Lincoln and the Civil war, and we were of course taught about how John Wilkes Boothe shot Lincoln. For whatever reason, they taught us what Boothe said as he shot Lincoln; "Sic Semper Tyrannis!" And when I first heard this, I giggled. It made no sense whatsoever.
What could Boothe have possibly meant by uttering such an absurd thing? He might as well have shouted "Brawny, The quicker picker upper!" for all the sense it made under the circumstances as they were described to me.
It was decades later that I learned that Boothe wasn't really shouting nonsense, it's just that I had been misled about what Lincoln had done and why.
Then it was not so funny.
Yes, I do blame the shooter. He should have given Abe the benefit of the doubt for just four more years. We have all been deprived of those four more years in office. But anyway, that’s the way it went down, and here we are.........