” I will attempt to educate you.”
LOL - right...
History isn’t a one-sided story. The Civil War is more complex than most people realize. There wasn’t a noble side in the war. It was the biggest waste of blood this nation allowed because of prideful idiots who couldn’t dialogue.
I agree it was the biggest wast of blood this nation allowed, but I disagree that it was because prideful idiots couldn't dialogue.
I think they had been "dialoguing" for decades, and the South just realized there was no further point to it. The taxes were set to make the South pay for the vast bulk of government costs, and the laws were set to funnel virtually all the Southern produced export value back through New York.
The South would never get a sufficient majority in the Congress to fix any of this, and since they didn't want to continue being the milk cow for the Northern elites who would not quit telling them how much they hated them, they saw leaving as their only option.
Unfortunately for them, the powerful Northern elites did not want to relinquish that 230 million per year of Southern wealth flowing through their hands, and they also did not want the South importing European goods to be distributed all along the border and throughout the Mississippi watershed.
The financial ramifications of Southern independence to the Northern "robber barons" was massive, and these were not the sort of men who would be ushered away to the poor house without a fight.
The Civil War was that fight.
You said a mouthful there!