Hardly. But then you think that any opposition to slavery makes people liberal.
Lincoln was respected by generations of Middle Americans who weren't "liberal" in the sense that people use that word today.
I don't think you're convincing anybody by trotting out your same old nonsense on any and every thread that has (or doesn't have) a Civil War connection.
You remind me of Chronicles magazine. Twenty years back or so, you could place bets on what page of the recent issue was going to tell you that Abraham Lincoln ruined America. That irritating predictability pretty well ruined the magazine and it will do the same for you, too.
No, I think it made them Liberal back in 1860.
As Charles Dickens clarified it in 1862:
"Every reasonable creature may know, if willing, that the North hates the Negro, and until it was convenient to make a pretense that sympathy with him was the cause of the War, it hated the Abolitionists and derided them up hill and down dale. For the rest, there's not a pins difference between the two parties. They will both rant and lie and fight until they come to a compromise; and the slave may be thrown into that compromise or thrown out, just as it happens.
Dickens described them clearly in the manner we see Liberal Kooks nowadays; Fringe elements that do not reflect the opinions of the majority.
Lincoln was respected by generations of Middle Americans who weren't "liberal" in the sense that people use that word today.
So is Bill Clinton and so is Barack Obama, and for the same reason. The propaganda system that commands the most eyeballs has made this their official narrative, and have been spreading it ever since.
I don't think you're convincing anybody by trotting out your same old nonsense on any and every thread that has (or doesn't have) a Civil War connection.
I started at the other end of this thing. When I first became interested in politics, I researched various subjects and their history in politics. I found out that virtually all of our terrible Supreme Court decisions kept tracing back to the 14th amendment. The 14th amendment was virtually used to justify every liberal wet dream the Black Robed kooks could dream up.
I began to realize that so much of what is wrong with the country is a consequence of the aftermath of the Civil War. It affects everyone's world view and it influences so much about modern politics, but we don't notice it because we aren't looking for the roots of things.