Or someone not from the South who actually learned a lot of the history behind what he did and what happened.
He deliberately started a war which killed 750,000 people, and he destroyed the original federalism which the founders had left us.
He created the ever expanding leviathan state and he enshrined the corruption into our government which is now known as the "deep state" and otherwise known as the corruption industrial complex.
what you said!
And yet, the nation is nearing 250, and maybe closer to a birth of some kind that was conceived in liberty in 1776.
Or closer to a late term abortion...
Probably depends on if Govt of the Swamp, by the Swamp, for the Swamp perishes from this earth or wins the war.
Hear hear!!! “Lincoln saved the republic”
Why? If it was about slavery the North could have bought every slave and freed them for a lot less money and blood shed. Even though the confederate constitution enshrined slavery, slavery was becoming obsolete and would have been phased out as mechanization would have made slaves too expensive to keep. The Southern states would have been squeezed economically to end slavery anyway with trade agreements between Europe and the northern states.
BUT. We are to blindly celebrate another mortal man just because we are told to. Lincoln. FDR, Barry Soetero, MLK, Ghandi. Nelson Mendela. Just worship them. Don’t ask questions because muh racism.
Yeah, but other than that I’m sure he was a nice guy.
Here we go again. It is very regrettable that he humbled around for 3years, and that he was a Whig.
The movie takes place in 1865, when he had been re- elected. It is rumored that he was Born Again in office.
“The Tariff controversy was but the subject, and not the object. The object is a Southern Confederacy. The next subject will be the Slavery question.” President Andrew Jackson. 1833.
I think your view has merit. There is certainly two sides when one takes an honest look at Lincoln. Especially when you consider the savage brutality Sherman inflicted on the south.