"One side in the Civil War was virtually the only democracy in the world at that time; and the other was a slave empire conspiring with foreign dictators in an attempt to destroy that democracy."
I'd love to stay and chat, but I have to go somewhere.
Before I toddle off, just a couple of things:
"Slave empire" is so overblown as to be risible. They were states, in the United States, where slaves were owned. Following secession, they attempted to become another democracy, with the same Republican institutions as the US.
And yes, if they had won, slavery would have been legal. It might have taken as much as another 20 years before economics killed it without a bloody, tragic war.
Secession would hardly have "destroyed" the US. It would have made it smaller, but the South had no intention of attacking.
People here go on and on about how brainwashed the young are when they come out of universities, and are totally unable to see that they have been lied to on the same scale about the WNA.
some of those here in that food chain are not so young...just angry.
As a foreigner who grew up in NYC and lives south of the Mason/Dixon line
Both the Yanks and CSA had great commanders on the field of battle; both sides committed atrocities etc. War is hell, as most of us know, and the domain of hell was, during the civilwar/war between the states, within our country.
Secession from the union was due to economic reason, not slavery.
What we need is such figures as Grant and Lee, Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, and other commanders in Iraq.
I'm certain, these gentlemen would set their differences aside and fight for our country.
You talk about brainwashing while calling the RAT Rebellion the "War of Northern Aggression"? Few things could be more laughable.