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”?