Posted on 04/02/2021 9:04:55 AM PDT by gattaca
Actually, the first shot was fired on the Star of the West by Citadel Cadets
Do you think Grover Cleveland was conservative or liberal?
Do you think Teddy Roosevelt was conservative or liberal?
Now compare to Woody Wilson.
The American Civil War or How the South got it’s ass kicked.
Dinesh is a resentful inferiority complex brown man
Pity so many drink him up
The stupids
the disaster at Appomattox.
The disaster was the firing on Fort Sumter. If that had not happened, there would have been no Appomattox.
The South has been paying for losing that war ever since.
Ditto for Teddy Roosevelt. As governor of New York, he ended school segregation. Just one month after Roosevelt was sworn in as President, he invited Booker T. Washington, a black civil rights activist, to dine at the White House.
Really? LBJ. Jimmy Carter. Bill Clinton. Both Bush's. I'd say they've gotten their revenge and then some.
The War for Southern Independence.
The whole country has. The original constitution died at Appamattox and was replaced by one in which the federal government no longer respected any limitations on its own power. The result as Lee predicted, is out of control debts, constant foreign meddling and oppression at home.
Conservative. One of the few Democrats I like.
Do you think Teddy Roosevelt was conservative or liberal?
Liberal.
Now compare to Woody Wilson.
Communist.
Taft is not mentioned often but he is high on my Sh*t list. He went to Congress and pushed for the Income Tax. Unfortunately they did what he wanted . This Cancerous amendment essentially made all of us into free range slaves and fed the Federal Monster into the beast it is today.
I think the War of Southern Rebellion is more accurate but that's just me.
Ping.
5.56mm
So the point is, be careful who you think is a (modern) Repub and a (modern) Dem.
Teddy and Woody were both “progressives” - and president-wise, the perfect tipping point on when one became tyrannical and the other stopped.
The slavery thing really is overblown, and look who beats on it now. So you know likely you shouldn’t be lionizing Lincoln and the rest of the old Republicans, because they love them.
Same as RevWar.
If they wanted to leave, let them leave. Why “union” at the point of a gun?
The South wanted out.
April 12, 1970 - Just to the southeast of Houston, TX for a grand sum of less than $500 (no insurance, either), ro_dreaming was born to the world.
Walking out without negotiation, without paying for your share of national obligations, taking every piece of property you can get your paws on, and shooting up a fort on the way out the door are not actions that promote an amicable separation. The South wanted their war, they got it. Sorry it didn't work out the way they had planned.
And they started a war to get out and then went and lost it. Sorry if I can't whip up a lot of sympathy for them when they do that.
DC had no authority to keep them obligated to the union.
Show me where it is authorized. Anything not addressed in the Constitution is left to the states.
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