You are continuing to do a fine job of arguing the North’s case against the South.
But it is totally unnecessary - the North won the war over 150 years ago and one of the greatest spoils of war is the privilege of writing a favorable version of history and teaching it to future generations.
The North has enjoyed that privilege to the fullest ever since.
At this point you are just beating a dead horse. I get it: North good - freed the slaves. South bad - loved owning and abusing slaves.
Look, try to get over yourself for a minute and consider the following hypothesis:
The Fake News of today becomes the Fake History of tomorrow.
Let’s imagine a wonderful scenario where President Trump and the MAGA Movement make a big comeback, retake the House, the Senate, the White House, and convict a couple dozen top Democrats of high treason.
Let’s say we convince the public...
...that the 2020 Election was indeed stolen
...that the MSM lied about everything
...that there was no MAGA “insurrection” on January 6th
...that both impeachments were complete hoaxes
...that President Trump was right about everything and a national hero.
If that happens, that is the version of history that will be taught a hundred and fifty years from now.
But what if President Trump and MAGA are not victorious - what if the public is not convinced the MSM accounts of recent events are all lies? What happens to all these conflicting narratives then?
You know the answer.
If the enemies of Trump and MAGA prevail - the fake news narratives of the Left will prevail as well, and will become codified over time into a version of “history” that depicts Trump as worse than Benedict Arnold, worse than Adolf Hitler. We MAGA patriots will be described as ignorant racists who allowed ourselves to be incited to violence for an evil cause.
In other words, we will be viewed by history the same way Southern Confederates are viewed right now.
And in 150 years, will there be people like you who just accept the one-sided version of history handed down to them, and fail to recognize that of course there were two sides - but that history is written by the winning side?
enumerated:
"Let’s imagine a wonderful scenario where President Trump and the MAGA Movement make a big comeback, retake the House, the Senate, the White House, and convict a couple dozen top Democrats of high treason." Potentially imagine only in the wettest of my wet dreams, and I'm way too old for those now.
But your basic problem is that you have the civil war narrative backwards -- it's not "Northerners" here trying to impose their "revisionist" history on others, we're only here to defend the truth against tons & tons of lies our FR pro-Confederates keep blasting us with, including this one:
enumerated: "At this point you are just beating a dead horse.
I get it: North good - freed the slaves.
South bad - loved owning and abusing slaves."
But it's not me who's flogging any kind of meat, it's you, FRiend.
And the truth is just a bit more complicated than your narrative: in fact, Republicans fought first to preserve the Union and then, as a necessity of war, to destroy Confederate slavery.
At war's end they abolished all remaining slavery, because nothing else made sense.
enumerated: "In other words, we will be viewed by history the same way Southern Confederates are viewed right now."
Ah, but the truth is Civil War history has been rewritten a good many times since 1865, sometimes with more dedication to the whole truth, and nothing but, than at other times.
Our pro-Confederate Lost Causers on Free Republic are dedicated to a version of history which is only tangentially attached to the whole truth.
They distort the Constitution's original intent, leave out the role of slavery, forget who demanded Fort Sumter's surrender, then launched an assault to force it, they ignore Confederates' declaration of war (5/6/61) and which side refused to stop fighting for any peace terms better than "Unconditional Surrender".
They also go out of their way to demonize Union behaviors which they are happy to accept when done by Confederates.
We are only here to defend the truth of history, not to condemn the South. ![]()