After thinking about it for a moment, I find it highly amusing that you are accusing me of confirmation bias. I don't think I could name another person on Free Republic who engages more in confirmation bias than do you. :)
I hope you find me equally amusing.
Proving once again that you may be slow but you do get there eventually.
If your charge is that I am a partisan then I proudly plead guilty. But then I’m not the one who has attempted to seize the high ground with absurdly comical (and totally irrelevant) claims of objectivity. I come by my bias honestly. Mama taught me an old saw that has served me well over the years: “Why climb a tree to tell a lie when you can stand on the ground and tell the truth”
I believe mainstream historians when they document that some truly bad characters drove the south to make some remarkably bad decisions following a disappointing election loss in 1860. When they encountered resistance to the consequence of those decisions they chose to double down. The result was the disastrous Civil War.
You, OTOH claim that “everything you were taught is a lie” and now you have divined the truth...followed by an endless string of incredible - and unconvincing assertions.
I stand guilty of having submitted links to documentation to support my claims. You routinely post crap that you have gleaned from the internet and breathlessly claim, “I never thunk of this idea but, by golly, it sure makes sense!”
And then you get indignant when people point at you and snicker.
I should add in here that I diligently follow every link and read every article that I encounter in the course of these threads. I do so out of intellectual curiosity, even when I suspect that they will be dishonest or revisionist claptrap. You routinely post comments that you refuse to waste your time reading this or that posted by your opponent. So who is the more objective one here?
It’s OK to be a partisan. We all are - in one way or another and to one degree or another. But in the name of intellectual honesty you really should own it if you wish to be taken seriously.