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Earlier I had corrected the misinformation that you spread when you said that the puritans "burned" witches. (You're welcome, don't mention it). You had said:

DL "Holier than thou" is emblematic of the mindset of the North Eastern puritans who first burned "witches", and then turned their attentions to other social causes of the day.

And then, while I was looking up something else, I came across this:

Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address (1838) During the speech, Lincoln referenced two murders committed by pro-slavery mobs. The first was the burning of Francis McIntosh, a freedman who killed a constable, and was subsequently lynched by a mob in St. Louis in 1836. Lincoln also referenced the death of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a newspaper editor and abolitionist, who was murdered three months earlier by a pro-slavery mob in nearby Alton, Illinois.

Do yourself a favor and search "the burning of Francis McIntosh". Seems y'all had some mighty peculiar mindset of your own. Makes me really proud that Abe kicked the living s**t out of y'all, from north to south, from east to west, over hills and mountains and lakes....

Earlier I had corrected the misinformation that you spread when you said that the puritans "burned" witches.

Must have missed it. Yeah, we know they hung them and drowned them and what not, but people generally think of "burning witches" when they think of "witch trials." The main point is that their "Holier than thou" attitude is real, and they used to kill "witches". Your point is trivial.

Oh. We're going to do the childish "Well your side did it too!" thing.

We're also going to ignore the fact that the entire society and legal system of Massachusetts was behind the systematic persecution of people in "witch trials" and subsequent murders of innocent people, but were going to equate it to the random criminal acts initiated by angry mobs, years apart, and in entirely different regions, and with likely far more reasonable cause.

Makes me really proud that Abe kicked the living s**t out of y'all, from north to south, from east to west, over hills and mountains and lakes....

Not my folk. We didn't get here until after 1900, and we never lived in a Southern State.

I'm objective. I don't have a personal dog in the fight. That's why I can see it for what it really was. A murderous conquest. An oppression. A killing of innocent people who just wanted to be free of control from Washington D.C.

The more I look at it, the more I realize it was about money. The money New England would lose if Southern ports obtained dominance in the trade traffic with Europe.

I think understanding this money business is probably over your head, so i'm not going to waste a lot of time trying to explain it to you.

But the same forces that oppressed them, are oppressing us today. The United States is ran from New York.

The media there steer the elections, and the Donors there give the politician their marching orders.

This is why electing a Republican congress has achieved nothing. The New York Washington corridor is where the real power in this nation lies.