[Organic Panic]

Hear hear!!! “Lincoln saved the republic”

Why? If it was about slavery the North could have bought every slave and freed them for a lot less money and blood shed. Even though the confederate constitution enshrined slavery, slavery was becoming obsolete and would have been phased out as mechanization would have made slaves too expensive to keep. The Southern states would have been squeezed economically to end slavery anyway with trade agreements between Europe and the northern states.

BUT. We are to blindly celebrate another mortal man just because we are told to. Lincoln. FDR, Barry Soetero, MLK, Ghandi. Nelson Mendela. Just worship them. Don’t ask questions because muh racism.

[DiogenesLamp]

Why? If it was about slavery the North could have bought every slave and freed them for a lot less money and blood shed. Even though the confederate constitution enshrined slavery, slavery was becoming obsolete and would have been phased out as mechanization would have made slaves too expensive to keep.

The issue of the civil war was not slavery, but whether states had a right to independence, as the Declaration of Independence asserted they did.

The Southern states would have been squeezed economically to end slavery anyway with trade agreements between Europe and the northern states.

One of the things that has convinced me the civil war was wrong was the economics of that period. The South was producing 72% of the total tax revenue for the US Federal government. They were doing quite well financially, and it was literally impossible for the Northern states to do anything about it other than invade them and destroy their industry. (Which is what they actually did.)

BUT. We are to blindly celebrate another mortal man just because we are told to. Lincoln. FDR, Barry Soetero, MLK, Ghandi. Nelson Mendela. Just worship them. Don’t ask questions because muh racism.

Yeah, I don't like mortal worship either.