Slavery and secession was an arrogant pissing contest which got out of control’’? Interesting take on it. I’m no fan of this current administration but I love my country. As far as ‘’Federal Leviathan’ that would seem to me to be the Democrats(Dems again) under Roosevelt and his New Deal’’ government socialism and LBJ with his ‘’Great Society ‘’ which created the modern day welfare plantation.
The more I study it, the more it looks like a pissing contest which got out of control. The South had successfully seceded. Had they not fired on the Fort, they likely would have been left alone. Let a few years pass without any conflict, and the situation would have solidified.
They fired on Ft. Sumter out of pride and arrogance. They couldn't stand what they regarded as the humiliation of having US troops on what they regarded as their soil. Firing first gave Lincoln a justification for doing what he wanted to do anyway.
Both sides thought it would be a quick little conflict, and quickly forgotten. They each underestimated the arrogance and stubbornness of the other. Once enough blood had been shed, they could no longer let go.
I’m no fan of this current administration but I love my country. As far as ‘’Federal Leviathan’ that would seem to me to be the Democrats(Dems again) under Roosevelt and his New Deal’’ government socialism and LBJ with his ‘’Great Society ‘’ which created the modern day welfare plantation.
This is true, but the roots of what LBJ did go through what Roosevelt did, and before him what Wilson did, and before him what Roosevelt (teddy) did, and before him, what Lincoln did. Lincoln established the Precedent of using the Federal government as a tool to solve social problems. What LBJ did was a natural extension of that same policy.