I can’t comprehend how anyone can hold the views that Kalamata and DiogenesLamp have on the civil war and still love this country, or call themselves Americans.
Come to think about it - I don’t believe I’ve seen either one say anything positive about our country. Telling, isn’t it?
I love the country just fine, but i'm not interested in lying about it's past. It had ugly parts when it started, and there is no sense in whitewashing over them.
The Civil War represents a huge departure from what the Founders thought they were creating. The massive overbearing central government which we now deal with was not at all what they had in mind when they created the nation. Lincoln is mostly responsible for putting us down the path of Federal totalitarianism.