"I sum it up as "The issues of that war are still with us today." We are still facing an oppressive Federal leviathan which no longer protect our interests."
I would probably say that the ability to revolutionize and withdraw from centralized authority was the last check on that athority ability to dominate inequitably, and the final deterrence from trying to do so in the first place.
This was of course the deference between a Federation that limits itself to shared interest, and that of an empire that follows only the interest of those in control. We have been an empire sense 1861, one that has been progressively losing the chains of it's constitution on the imperial ambition of those in control.
The right to revolution thou suppressed must inevitably someday reassert itself, even thou by Lincoln's terms that reassertion will have to take a very bloodily and unnecessarily costly form of war on a near genocidal scale. Regional inequalities will not be tolerated forever on an ever growing list of ever more abusive issues upon which we are forced to submit.
If we are wise people will come to recognize that fact and reverse before that day of undesired 'civil war' must comes to refresh the tree of individual liberty.
This was of course the deference between a Federation that limits itself to shared interest, and that of an empire that follows only the interest of those in control. We have been an empire sense 1861, one that has been progressively losing the chains of it's constitution on the imperial ambition of those in control. This is what I see too. Washington DC is becoming increasingly the plaything of plutocrats who remain behind the scenes, but quietly (and sometimes not so quietly, see Homosexual Tim Cook and Indiana) steer the government.
Our Fiscal policies may be very lucrative to large Financial institutions, but they are very detrimental to the Middle class and poor.
The right to revolution thou suppressed must inevitably someday reassert itself, even thou by Lincoln's terms that reassertion will have to take a very bloodily and unnecessarily costly form of war on a near genocidal scale. Regional inequalities will not be tolerated forever on an ever growing list of ever more abusive issues upon which we are forced to submit.
I'm sorta hoping the sane states can get together and toss out the Kooks. Sort of a reverse secession.