Dont get me wrong. It is important to understand history. As it is proper to see history “rhyming” as it does from time to time.
It is just tedious to listen to folks ramble (on both sides) about stuff that was settled 150 years ago.
Several days ago, I suggested that we stop this bickering as a group. But since then, there have probably been 20 such threads.
Not a single opinion has been changed.
The war is over.
We have larger issues to deal with today. But this site still focuses on the meaning of minutia involving Catholic decisions in the 800’s and whether or not the 1861 war was more savage for the the soldiers in the blue uniforms or the grey ones.
Can’t you we these things are meant to distract everyone from the real issues?
I have decided not to donate to FR anymore because there is no further a discussion. There are a dozen or so posters who make life so miserable for anyone with a mildly different point of view.
To them, I pray for deliverance. And a pox on their homes.
When you first come to these arguments, it can be a great way to get back into history, maybe for the first time since school days. It's not like that for me any more, so I've lost interest over time, but don't underestimate how interesting it was in the beginning.
Can’t you we these things are meant to distract everyone from the real issues?
That is true. So much stuff is a distraction, though. Every stupid comment some movie star makes doesn't need to get 100+ responses (mostly saying the same thing), but some do.
I'd say let the discussion about history go on, but people don't take it so seriously. Recognize that it has a place in the world, but it's not worth getting bent out of shape over or making lasting enemies about questions that were resolved a century and a half ago.
This is where I disagree. It wasn't "settled" 150 years ago, that is when it started. The Federal leviathan seized more power than it was ever envisioned to have in 1861. It has only gotten stronger ever since.
This is not a 150 year old settled problem, this is a right here, right now unsettled problem.
You say it's important to understand history:
Dont get me wrong. It is important to understand history. As it is proper to see history “rhyming” as it does from time to time.
I regard it as important to understand the how and why of how we got to where we are now, because to fail to understand how we got here makes it impossible to figure out how to get away from here.
To understand where you are going, you have to understand where you have been.
It's the same issue you dolt.