Skooz,
You should probably read that revisionist crap, along with the Declaration of Independance, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights....ok, all of the amendments not just the first ten (the latter more modern ones don't have that ring of truth the founders brought to the fore).
If you think government is supposed to "do stuff" for you, we have no basis for discussion. If you believe government's charter is to protect your ability to make decisions, the freedom to succeed or fail on the basis of your own merits, and to do all this without INTERFERING, then the revisionist (debatable) crap looks less like a single guy yelling on a corner and more like a well researched and well intentioned statement of truth.
I won't go see tubbo's flick. I like the whole experience of going to the movies too much. I have looked at point by point summaries, from both sides of the argument, and it sounds to me like tubbo didn't get his facts straight (for the most part).
Bottom line, the founders wrote as perfect a "roadmap" for as perfect a government the world has ever seen. It started going south (pun intended) when the "Henry Clay-ists" started pushing for the "American Plan" (maybe even earlier than that), and really started the bad slide when lincoln abrogated the southern states' right of secession. He then perpetrated acts that would not be out of place in a cheezy banana republic.
We are now taxed more, interferred with more, with a great deal of what we produce going to programs that would NOT hold up to constitutional scrutiny. Lincoln, oratory not withstanding, does not hold up to constitutional scrutiny.
Nope, lincoln was a baaaaaaaaad president. no donut!
Oh, I've read plenty of it. It's crap.
Just like El Barfo's movie, only those who already hate the man believe it. Real historians have dismissed it as one-sided and so biased as to be completely worthless.
Lincoln preserved the union. Twist and distort that all you want, it is the truth. Like living in the USA? Thank Abe, he preserved it for you.