Posted on 12/15/2015 12:23:57 PM PST by EveningStar
Link only per agreement with Gannett
Too many ads.
Can’t get to Medved’s column.
He lost me with a ‘wise’ Lincoln.
While I think that slavery is about the worst form of theft possible (you are stealing someone’s life), Lincoln destroyed the constitution, the republic form of government, and was responsible for immense death, misery and destruction that was unnecessary given that the South was headed toward outlawing the practice.
Yes, that would have meant 10-15 more years of oppression for slaves but Lincolns cure was vastly worse than the disease assuming we treat everyone’s misery as being equally valid.
Slavery was a catalyst but the crux of the issue was state’s rights - and those were lost permanently along with any check on the power of the central government.
I spit on Lincoln. In spite of all the warnings of the founding fathers he thought a large and powerful U.S. with an unfettered central government was a great thing. And now, a mere 150 years later, it’s killing us.
NO!
How did we ever survive before most politicians were “professional”?
I don’t care - I was curious.
I use this (recommended by a tech when my laptop crashed & I needed a new one). Works like a charm - saw no ads when I went to the site.
Lincoln was not the saint everyone portrays, from a conservative viewpoint.
The war was about STATES RIGHTS more than it was about Slavery. Slavery was just the issue.
Imagine if, instead of telling you that you could not own slaves, the government told you that you had to buy health insurance.
let me rephrase that- instead of telling you what you could NOT buy (slaves) they told you what you HAD TO buy (health insurance)
True. When the Wall Street gang realized that the South would cut deals with foreign governments, that’s when they told Lincoln to be against secession. He was a puppet of northern business and banking interests. Slavery was an afterthought. Professional politicians are all by definition BOUGHT. Only term limits can begin to sure the total corruption of our political system.
I agree.
I am of the opinion that there was a far easier path to freedom for slaves other than civil war. The power to tax is the power to destroy and that power could have been used to first impose a tariff on imported slaves. Then impose a tax on the slave trade itself. Then impose health and welfare type of regulations on the care and treatment of slaves. Then impose a tax on owning slaves, and finally increase that tax to the point where it would be extremely cost prohibitive to own slaves.
Granted, this would have taken several years, perhaps even a couple of decades to implement. But the faster the speed of change, the more lives it will cost.
You’re not supposed to see through the myth that clearly.
Use ‘Reader View’ on the Firefox browser and you’ll get just the text.
OKay ... I’m determined to devote tomorrow to solving laptop issues.
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