What was slavery's role in the earlier national conflicts?
They both disliked Northern corporations and capitalists and the Republican Party. They both looked to a more powerful federal government that would take on the powerful industrial and financial interests of the North and East.
Which is a position that I have been slowly coming around to in the last three years. Not just the North East nowadays. I am also quite alarmed about the outright Fascism and Tyranny coming out of the Tech Oligarchs in San Fransisco.
What do you think about these powerful corporations and their tendency to censor speech they don't like?
"Earlier" meaning the Civil War and the years leading up to it. 50 and more years after the war, Beard and the progressive historians and others of their generation so hated industrial capitalists and the Republican Party that they sought to remove slavery from the Civil War.
Not just the North East nowadays. I am also quite alarmed about the outright Fascism and Tyranny coming out of the Tech Oligarchs in San Francisco.
What do you think about these powerful corporations and their tendency to censor speech they don't like?
The technology makes your worldview archaic. What you don't like about New York City or San Francisco is to be found in Atlanta or Charlotte or Nashville or Houston or Phoenix or Salt Lake City. And in the future, things will be even more mixed up. So whatever you or I think about Facebook or Google or Twitter, it's not going to provide you with a soap box to go on attacking New York City.