But thankfully he has a lot of true believers who really really want to believe, and they don't notice any problems with his spiel.
Now you have demonstrated yourself to be a dishonest debater. You do not address the point put forth to you, and instead run off into the weeds at every opportunity.
When we started this exchange, You didn't know that the South was producing the vast bulk of all the European wealth entering this country. Now that you finally know about it, you ignore the significance of this, because it absolutely works against your position.
That money flow would not have disappeared (without force to stop it.) That money flow would have simply changed it's destination, and therein is the motive for the war.
Were you not wedded to believing a particular thing, you could see it. I suspect you do see it, but don't want to admit it.
Post #570 is what you get for being nice to this fool.
Here are some fun quotes I found for everyone to enjoy!
“The South went to war on account of slavery. South Carolina went to war, as she said in her secession proclamation, because slavery would not be secure under Lincoln. South Carolina ought to know what was the cause for her seceding.“
“Now while I think as badly of slavery as Horace Greeley did I am not ashamed that my family were slaveholders. It was our inheritance. Neither am I ashamed that my ancestors were pirates and cattle thieves... People must be judged by the standard of their own age. If it was right to own slaves as property it was right to fight for it.”
“I’ve always understood that we went to war on account of the thing we quarreled with the north about. I’ve never heard of any other cause of quarrel than slavery.”
Colonel John S. Mosby
Commander, 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States Army
More cockamamie nonsense from DiogenesLamp.
Brave talk, "whistling past the graveyard" I'd say.