I submit that you and your ilk are the 'lost cause'. You're willing to lick the heel of a tyrants boot as long it will 'preserve the union', and that, noobie, is damned unAmerican.
An American, in the classical sense, will not tolerate tyranny. He will throw down the yoke of tyranny, look the tyrant in the eyes and say, "No more!"
An American is prepared to say:
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,......We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness......"
Why don't you give that some thought, noobie.
All of which is quite amusing when one considers that all this “tyranny” was created and perpetuated by the very south that chose to blow up a nation to “escape” it.
Lost Cause Losers are such imaginative folks ;-)