Good catch; tx.
bttt
Genocides generally have 2 things in common:
1) The people who are ready and willing to commit the genocide always telegraph their intentions. It takes a very high level of hate to be part of a genocide of innocent people, and because of that, the people doing the killing simply cannot conceal their intentions. Ignore what they say at your own risk...
2) The victims NEVER think mass killings are possible. In Europe, as Jews were loaded into the cattle cars later in the genocide, other Jews started hearing rumors of death camps, and they also started asking why the ones who departed earlier weren’t writing home. While the reasons are obvious now, at the time there were 2 common reactions to these two items: (1) - What you’re saying can NEVER happen here, we are the most ‘cultured’ country in the world; (2) - Even if I do leave, I’ll lose everything that I’ve worked for here.
The ones who did leave early and made it to a safe place likely were able to hang on to at least some of their wealth, and obviously survived the holocaust. The ones who didn’t leave early, but figured it out later, found the doors shut to them all over the world. Something to think about.
From all that I have studied over the years, I have found these leading causes of the Civil War:
1) Sensational “news” reported in newspapers and over the wire.
2) Sensational “news” reported via rumors.
3) Slavery
4) Frustration in the South, given a number of its members (Rep’s plus Senators) in the US Congress, not standing up for the South
5) False Pride - Vanities, that affected the perspectives of people of various regions vs people of other regions (different people not thoughtfully considering what it was like to wear the other’s shoes)
6) As time went by, an increasing misrepresentation by Party A re Party B (pick from a number of opponents)
7) My own consideration of the views of members of the board of directors at Northern banks, who were also industrialists and management of Northern industries -— *perhaps* (though I am not yet certain), they were too reluctant to loan money to the South where Southern industry would develop and prosper. Perhaps an opportunity for the South, was thereby missed.
8) Toward the start of the actual fighting, I do know that many in the South, became much more inclined to defend their homes, their territories, and their states.
9) And to some extent, there were enough Religious Revivalists to stimulate and stir the pot, North and South.
10) Adventure . . . until later when the cost quenched it.
11) Survival - given a necessary hardiness to work the land, despite many odds, not easy to convince a body of people to quit
12) An incredible amount of potential for misfortune, and how individuals react to that -— upsetting many, many plans
Interesting post, thanks!
Horse Manure!!!! Lincoln was not a saint,hero or superman. He was a conniving corporate lawyer who represented most of the major rail roads in the US. He fabricated the notion of a supreme federal government from thin air, subverted the Constitution, locked people up without due process, threatened to arrest the Chief Justice for opining that a state could leave the union, rewarded his railroad cronies with cabinet positions and even made his old boss, McClellan, the supreme commander of the army. On top of all that he believed Blacks were inferior genetically to Whites and wanted them all repatriated back to Africa.
Wow.
As Lincoln did with the demise of the Revolutionaries, I have seen the decline of America coinciding with the loss of the greatest generation. They were the last generation who knew suffering in the Depression and evil in the Axis of WWII, and who understood that Communism was a threat to the world and that promoting Americanism, along with perpetual vigilance, were the long-term remedy.
My father survived the Depression in the poorest section of the poorest town in OK, then fought the Japanese on Guam in WWII, then learned to work with the Japanese against Red China and the USSR in the 60s. His life was one of devotion to duty and to his country.
I thought that by teaching the next generation I could continue his country and his principles, but the Leftists were more numerous and more destructive, and now the country I hand to my children is one they will have to fight and die for to return to its first principles of freedom under representative law, or let die and bring darkness on the world.
QUESTION: How did we get here?
Some folks have been telling us this was coming for over 70 years! They were members of the John Birch Society (JBS).
Thanks to ridicule and lies by the 5th column - now called the “mainstream media”- not enough of you listened.
How effective was that 1950s disinformation campaign (LIES!) against the JBS?
Substitute “TRUMP” for “JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY” and you’ll have SOME idea!
Want to know more while we MAY have time to stop them?
Go to JBS.ORG to learn more!
WARNING: If you DO get serious about turning back the CRIMINALS now engineering the newest totalitarian nation, brace for impact!
If you decline to fight for your nation and the freedoms purchased with the “lives, fortunes and sacred honor” of those who went before, Sam Adams has some words for you:
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams
If you read Bushwhacker, by Sam Hildebrand, you see Lincoln’s own men and those they encouraged ‘mobed’ plenty of innocent Southerners.
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Thanks for posting this. People need to remember Lincoln and his accomplishments.
Happy Birthday, President Lincoln.
Marking.