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I’m not American by the way, but I’ve read a lot on the subject, and while I know we can all agree both sides did wrong, the underlying premise was not what people thought it was. There was a huge loss of American life over really not much at all. The war was about centralizing power in DC. It doesn’t take an IQ over 35 to see that. Also, I’m not implying your IQ is low, I’m sure it’s not, I’m just saying that even a person not gifted with above average intelligence can see what the war was about.

Look around today, besides Trump, it’s been one big slide ever since. It’s by design. I know this is long ago history, but look what it led to today.

I’m not American by the way, but I’ve read a lot on the subject, and while I know we can all agree both sides did wrong, the underlying premise was not what people thought it was.

Sometimes things are the way they seem.

The war was about centralizing power in DC. It doesn’t take an IQ over 35 to see that.

I would hope my IQ is over 35 and I don't see it that way at all. The South seceded to protect slavery. They launched their war to further that aim. Then the lost it. It isn't all that complex.

Bulwyf: "I’m not American by the way..."

We have any number of alleged American posters who seem to hate their own country even more than you do.

Bulwyf: "...but I’ve read a lot on the subject, and while I know we can all agree both sides did wrong, the underlying premise was not what people thought it was."

The "underlying premise" is absolutely not what our Lost Cause mythologizers claim it was.
If you buy into their nonsense it only means you never read any real history of the period.

Bulwyf: "There was a huge loss of American life over really not much at all. "

Well... of course, as a non-American you'd have no appreciation for the value of preserving the Union intact and freeing its four million slaves.
Most of us consider those to have been a pretty big deal.

Bulwyf: "The war was about centralizing power in DC.
It doesn’t take an IQ over 35 to see that."

I'd say it takes an IQ of 35 to claim such a thing, nobody said that at the time.

Bulwyf: "Also, I’m not implying your IQ is low, I’m sure it’s not, I’m just saying that even a person not gifted with above average intelligence can see what the war was about."

I'd say your IQ is in the same category as our notorious ("Impeach 45") Congresswoman Maxine Waters.

Bulwyf: "I know this is long ago history, but look what it led to today."

The same people who brought us nullification, secession & Civil War -- Democrats! -- today give us liberalism, progressivism, socialism & whatever-it-takesism to defeat the US Constitution and the Free Republic based on it.