But I could never agree to leave the ape out of a thread where slavery is being discussed. I haven't been able to find it but there is a quote extant where a dyank mercantilist speaks of, paraphrasing, "a new and better form of (slave) labour". I wish that I could find it because that, of course, is exactly what these monsters instituted and that system held sway until the rise of the unions.
To me the robber barons are not substantially different from the degenerate in Texas who left the man to die in her car's windshield.
As to the RINO stuff; Danforth is the RINO who is presently charged with covering the federales tracks in the WACO incident is he not? And I saw his name affixed to some information regarding your academic career.
Frankly, if Keyes would come clean on Lincoln he would have my unqualified support until the time that he did something to warrant my withdrawing such.
Whether the South held slaves in bondage or not; Lincoln should have let them go! His not doing so destroyed a progression of government toward more freedom that had been gaining in momentum since Wallace and Bruce and the Magna Carta.
One observer of the assertion that I just made:
”I saw in States' Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy . . . I deemed that you [i.e., Lee] were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.” –Lord Acton to General Lee