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To: central_va
Even you are not that full of BS.....

No, my BS level doesn't approach the level of the Lost Cause brigade. But what the hell, I'll play his game too. Without the harm caused by Southern presidents like Wilson and LBJ and Carter and Clinton and Bush I think that FDRs excesses would have been reigned in by Congress and the Supreme Court - because we, at least, would have one. FDR would have been an anomaly and yes, I believe the U.S. would be a far more capitalist country than it is right now. Most likely far more free market oriented than the third world cesspool the confederacy would have become.

666 posted on 04/21/2010 5:57:46 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
I believe the U.S. would be a far more capitalist country than it is right now. Most likely far more free market oriented than the third world cesspool the confederacy would have become.


668 posted on 04/21/2010 6:03:12 AM PDT by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org)
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To: Non-Sequitur

NS, LBJ, Carter and Clinton were nothing more than weak sock puppets of FDR (an industrial plutocrat with a populist streak). Had the CSA survived none of the known history would have occured. My guess is the North would have felt extremely vulnerable sandwiched between Canada, an English colony, and the Confederacy an ally of England. Given the North would have had to feed its urban centers through exports, exactly who would they have exported to? Latin and South America? Under these circumstances domestic history would have reverted to the frontier west and competition for new States. In foreign policy the North would have been squeezed out by England and France in Europe.


669 posted on 04/21/2010 6:07:35 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: Non-Sequitur
Without the harm caused by Southern presidents like Wilson and LBJ and Carter and Clinton and Bush I think that FDRs excesses would have been reigned in by Congress and the Supreme Court...

That makes no sense at all. FDR was president decades BEFORE all of the other men you listed except Woodrow Wilson. How did the harm they caused prevent FDR from being reined in by the Supreme Court?

672 posted on 04/21/2010 6:42:48 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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