Well watch the evening news tonight, see how Fedzilla is out of control and we’re fast coming under the rule of a dictatorship, and watch all the feral youths running amok burning down our inner cities.
And be thankful.
You have a logical fallacy of cause and effect. There is nothing that can be tied to the War Between the States (as an event) that provides clear linkage to our current straits of the overreach of federal government. It can only be a matter of speculation. And that same speculation can draw a straight line from the “success” of the csa to the very same circumstances we find ourselves in now.
We failed to contain the leftists and allowed them to redefine the scope of federal authority. It happens with every republic sooner or later.