They’re a great way to forget the troubles of the day and they also provide nice avenues for mutual venting for those of us on both sides of the issue. There are real differences on the Civil War, but they pale compared to the gulf that separates all conservatives from the acme of wacky leftist policies now residing in the White House.
The problem is that conservatives want a strong federal government also, they have forgotten what a Republic is themselves. I look at the Civil War as the end of the Republic. Because it “was about slavery”, the fact the the Federal Monster was created as a result of the war, is lost on all it seems. States are a joke. Everyone knows where the power is. It wasn’t always so, we truly were a Republic at one time.