[Ditto]

In fact, the reason Lincoln won (38% of the pv) was because the aristocratic southern lunatics refused to support Douglas and split the RAT party into three parts each with its own candidate. True lunacy if there ever was such.

Actually a cynical political calculation. The radical in the South understood that they would never get popular support for secession unless a "Black" Republican should win. They intentionally split the Democrats to assure a Republican win and therefore attain their goal -- splitting the Union.

They had propagandized the southern people with stories that would make Michael Moore blush about how the Republicans would have the slaves become the masters and black men raping their wives and daughters. Crude, but it worked --- for a time.

[justshutupandtakeit]

It is no contradiction to call some cynical calculations lunacy and this case is still lunacy. When your view of political and economic realities are so twisted that your aims are crushed that is lunacy. Megalomania was the condition of the Slaver leaders.

Slaver propaganda is still put forth by apologists here and worked in the South until the 1960s.

[stand watie]

where did you get that particuliar FOOLISH & UNinformed theory??? (one presumes off a damnyankee propaganda/REVISIONIST/socialist TINFOIL-hat site)

that is UTTER NONSENSE of the most arrogantly ignorant sort.

SURELY you are smarter than to believe such DRIVEL.

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