Posted on 01/09/2022 8:16:11 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Will those who support affirmative action be removed when AA is determined to be racist?
Did I miss all of the times Jake the Tapper spoke out against “political violence” perpetrated by Biden’s Brownshirts ?
The decision to allow the wayward sisters to return with their honor, their symbols, and their traditions intact was one of the wisest and most generous accommodations in the history of civil wars.
Among other things, it made the United States a world power and a fountain of invention and creativity, capable of prodigious feats - even able to visit nearby worlds.
The decision to take this sensible gesture back is one of the worst, most reckless and foolish decisions in the history of statecraft.
CNN is the tribute to traitors.
Right. No one here is defending slavery or sorry to see it abolished.
The problem is that liberty can’t be conditional. Either we are self-governing or we are not. As soon as central governments presume to regulate morals by force, there is no individual liberty - only tyranny.
We can see it happening right now with the January 6th show trials. The central government is attempting to criminalize their political opposition (MAGA) by presuming moral high ground.
We are being called white supremacists, violent insurrectionists, traitors. Make no mistake, they put us on par with slave holders.
They are wrong - but it almost doesn’t matter whether they are right or wrong about us - they simply do not have the right to judge us. Period.
“Since Abraham Lincoln is considered the founder of the Republican Party, I guess the answer is Republicans (were fighting to overthrow slavery).
If what you say is true, we should be able to go to Lincoln’s first inaugural address and read where he put down his marker that he, and the Republicans, would fight to free the slaves.
I can’t find that.
But for the purpose of this post, let’s assume you are correct: Lincoln and the Republicans fought to overthrow slavery.
But remember: slavery was enshrined not only in the Confederate Constitution but also in the United States Constitution. If Lincoln took up arms to overthrow slavery, he took up arms to violently overthrow the U.S. Constitution - and levied war on the states to do it.
That would make Lincoln - to use Tapper’s words - a traitor.
Maybe he was.
"Tributes to Democrats."
The problem is that liberty and equality are antonyms.
Wait, do you SERIOUSLY think there are people who don't know, who are unaware of the basic facts?
Are you one of those conservatives who presumes good faith on the part of the revolutionaries who are destroying the nation? "If they only knew the true facts"?
Pro tip: They know the facts. All of them.
And they are using their lies about those facts as a club to beat the naive fools who think it will all come out right if only they would look at a few pictures.
Remember Solzhenitsyn's account of praying with dying zeks, wasted from starvation, cold, and abuse? It was not uncommon for their last words to be, "If only Stalin knew", when Stalin, their hero, was the one who put them in the camps to begin with.
The idea that party politics in the 1850s and in the post-bellum South has anything to do with the correlation of forces today is ridiculous.
The Civil Rights Act, which is unquestionably unconstitutional, was opposed for a long time by Republicans and Democrats. The one man most responsible for its eventual passage was Lee Harvey Oswald.
The radical nature of the Civil Rights Act was the creation of northern Democrats, not Republicans.
I neede room and threw out/gave away Churchills 3 volume memories of ww2. I’ve regretted it every since.
I bet they are for sale on Amazon really cheap or they are in a thrift store. St. Vinnies in Eugene OR always had a great selection.
Yes. Absolutely. Not too many on Free Republic but maybe the enemy trying to check us out.
I go to lunch with some Democrat friends, and I guaran-damn-tee you they've never done the comparison, not looking beyond CNN or maybe CBS.
With them, we mostly talk about sports. With them, I don't start political discussions. I end them. They know now not to bring things up because they'll get their asses kicked.
Yup.
Um, they were democrats. Is he hating on Democraps??
The North cannot properly be accused of treason in that it was the Southern states that seceded and made resort to armed force against federal troops and installations. A seasoned lawyer, Lincoln knew that letting the South strike first put them in the wrong under the constitution and legitimated the North's position.
Churchill was correct in his assessment of Southern slavery. It created a society that was dominated by an arrogant baronial class of large slave holders determined to cement themselves and their families in power and to be secure against any interference from the North or anyone else. Against good sense, they deluded themselves into thinking that they could secede and then win the ensuing military conflict in spite of the South's inferiority in population, finance, and industry.
Alternatively, the South could have accepted Lincoln's election but created a Southern confederacy within the federal system, engaged with the North, and delayed a reckoning over slavery as she built up her military potential. We may add to the list of slavery's ill effects that it made the South's leaders arrogant and stupid.
Of course, no later than the beginning of the new century, with the boll weevil and the exhaustion of Southern soils, cotton cultivation and even a reformed system of slavery with gradual emancipation would have collapsed into some form of the sharecropping system that defined the South's agricultural economy after the Civil War.
In any event, the North's appetite for freedom and equality for Blacks would have quickly diminished as free Blacks made their way North -- which is more or less what happened after the Civil War. Even without that tragic and unnecessary conflict, slavery was doomed to fail, and Jim Crow and segregation were destined to rise in its aftermath.
“But remember: slavery was enshrined not only in the Confederate Constitution but also in the United States Constitution.”
Please point where that is enshrined in the Constitution.
While we re at it, explain why our current President was such good friends with racists:’But it was just ten years ago when Biden was praising KKK member and Democratic Senator Robert Byrd as a “mentor” and “friend.”’
“The Civil Rights Act, which is unquestionably unconstitutional, was opposed for a long time by Republicans and Democrats.”
Really?
“Terms in this set (18) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, required equal access to public places and employment, and enforced desegregation of schools and the right to vote.”
“On this day in 1964, the Senate was involved in an epic fight over the Civil Right Act, after a group of Southern senators started a record-setting filibuster in March.”
Filibuster lasted 75 days
“During the debate over the law, Senator Strom Thurmond conducted the longest one-person filibuster in Senate history.”
Senator from S. Carolina
I guaran-damn-tee you, they have NO IDEA how far the other way I will look when and if the helicopters fire up.
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