“So to say the North was the aggressor for invading the South when the South started the war in the first place is, to me at least, as ridiculous as saying the U.S. was the aggressor in World War II for invading Germany when Germany started the war to begin with.”
Are you now sated having played the Nazi Card twice in this thread?
The Nazi’s went wrong in every way I know because they pursued socialist policies and many of their leaders dabbled in the occult. They were bad guys.
Southerners were mostly good guys.
But they had this one little quirk. They believed: Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Don’t ask me where they got such a crazy idea.
General Eisenhower knew about southerners. And he knew about Nazis. Unlike many today, he never confused the two.
General Eisenhower knew right from wrong. And so far as I know, he never lacked the courage to proclaim the difference.
Not if it is needed again, no.
The Nazi’s went wrong in every way I know because they pursued socialist policies and many of their leaders dabbled in the occult. They were bad guys.
Socialist policies like utilizing slave labor? Like implementing confiscatory taxes? Like seizing a set percentage of all farm output without compensation "for the war effort"? Like requiring private ship owners to reserve a set percentage of their cargo capacity for the government without compensation "for the war effort"? Like government control of whole industries like salt? Like requiring citizens to get government permission to travel? Like establishing un-elected Habeas Corpus Commissions that had the power to jail people without trial? Those kind of socialist policies?
Southerners were mostly good guys.
Once you get past that whole rebellion thing I'm sure they were all sterling characters.
But they had this one little quirk.
Oh they were quirkier than that.
They believed: Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
One quirk being that they thought their cause was on the same level as that of the Founding Fathers. It wasn't.
Don’t ask me where they got such a crazy idea.
It's a mystery to me too.
General Eisenhower knew about southerners. And he knew about Nazis. Unlike many today, he never confused the two.
He never missed the point as badly as you do. Over and over.