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Magic Negro ‘Stimulates’ His Political Buddies
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Idiot Republican Redneck: "War of Northern Aggression"?
According to Republican State Rep. Bryan Stevenson, the proposed pro-choice "Freedom of Choice Act" is the biggest federal power grab since the "War of Northern Aggression."
Rep. Don Calloway got Stevenson to apologize for his, um, overstatement.
So why did the GOP make Michael Steele Chairman? I mean was this some kind of fucken joke? I again point towards my sidebar “about me” why I’m not a Republican.
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HOW DARE THEY!
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4 comments:
Um... Not fer nuthin' here, but "War of Northern Agression" really does sum it up.
It really came down to a lot of 'For thee but not for me' tarriffs and trade restrictions leveled by the Federal government unfairly against Southern states, while all manner of trade remained completely unfettered for the Industrial North - not to mention other truly ridiculous amounts of Federal meddling in the day-to-day activities and operating of those same Southern states.
The war didn't become "About Freeing the Slaves" until the Northern armies got their collective ass handed to them by numerically inferior forces, and Lincoln needed a moral high-ground to override the VIRULENT anti-war sentiment in the population centers.
(btw, the North only won at all because they were able to outlast the South on an attrition-basis - Grant was able to keep throwing more and more men into the meat-grinder, until the South just ran out of 'fight' and men, despite having won the VAST majority of the battles)
There's also the matter if 'Civil War' being a misnomer in first place, as civil-wars are fought by opposing factions for control of a country - while the WoNA was about using force to keep the Southern States from seceding.
The fact that we now find slavery to be evil and abhorrent does not change the fact that the it was built into the agrarian economy at the time - any more than it changes the fact that the South had already come to admit the 'wrongness' of it and had already begun phasing it out (EVERY Southern state had enacted laws against bringing in new slaves from overseas, and freed black sharecroppers were already becoming more and more commonplace).
I know it's Politically Correct to revere Lincoln as "The only person in history better than Obama" and the North's side in the War as being that of "Unassailable Light", but that really is a matter of the (eventual) victors getting to re-write history the way they want it.
- MuscleDaddy
MuscleDaddy--
It's so good to know that someone else has learned the real history of the 1860s. You said it better than I ever could.
Ah thank you evah so much.
Come by the Gazette sometime - I peeked @ your profile - looks like we have a good deal in common (folks live in NC, too).
- MD
Are you talking about E3?
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