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To: TallahasseeConservative

Every problem that we endure now with a powerful centralized government was spawned by Lincoln

Nope. A lot of them were spawned by Woodrow Wilson and FDR.

24 posted on 01/05/2018 12:35:36 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)

To: WayneS

‘Nope. A lot of them were spawned by Woodrow Wilson and FDR.’

please don’t disabuse people of their fantasies; we must be kind...

29 posted on 01/05/2018 12:55:40 PM PST by IrishBrigade

To: WayneS

Nope. A lot of them were spawned by Woodrow Wilson and FDR.

Only because Lincoln laid the foundation for doing so. The Federal Government was never so all powerful prior to 1861.

60 posted on 01/05/2018 2:24:21 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")

To: WayneS

But big govt tyranny started in earnest with Lincoln.He cleared the path for the rest.

61 posted on 01/05/2018 2:28:49 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)

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