Folks must be new to the game
Don't think they ever are out there. LVs did the same for some time, not sure if still.
Just news now (as it was last year when they played...Iowa )...lol "OuTrAge Is BuiLdiNg"
This country is like a brain dead patient. It's over, done, but the body just hasn't figured it out yet. Every pillar this country was founded upon has been destroyed or at least badly compromised. No, America will never be united again. The US will fall.Good lord. When will they realize they are creating more division not less.
United We Stand
Sad dayApril 9, 1865
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When Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in a farmhouse parlor in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, standing with other war correspondents in the front yard was William Downs MacGregor of The Associated Press.
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Truth is the money and the power in the state have never been in East Tennessee. The money and the power decide which side. Personally, me and my kins at the time view was that we were invaded in violation of the Constitution. The first state to vote to secede from the Union was Massachusetts (in the early 1800's) and they were not invaded. I believe that the New Hampshire house recently voted for secession.East Tennessee is my country, and they remained loyal to the union even as they were dragged away selfishly by the rest of the state. But YMMV.
Prior to the civil war, “THE United States” was “THESE United States.” That war fundamentally ended states’ autonomy and has snowballed into the plethora of federal overreach and irreconcilable differences between the way california and the north want to be governed and the southeast and other regions.My country lost. But now I live in the U.S. and that is my country for now.
There was no correct narrative for slavery. It was abhorrent, and evil. North did what it had to do, and we are better off for it. I understand embracing history, else how can we learn for the future. Because history does repeat itself.Both sides had a narrative, and the narrative from each side contained grains of truth. It's not wrong to say it was about slavery. It's also not wrong to say it was about states' rights. Lincoln trampled all over the Constitution to maintain the Union. The federal government today holds far more power than the Founding Fathers ever intended.
I fully expect this conversation is going to get moved.
Slavery was abhorrent and evil and needed to end, but the North did not go to war to end slavery. Yes, the South wanted to protect slavery, and yes, they feared the election of Lincoln would lead to a federal ending of slavery, which is why they seceded, but the North went to war to end secession, not slavery. They had no noble purpose other than bringing the South back into the fold, which, at the time, was very arguably un-Constitutional.There was no correct narrative for slavery. It was abhorrent, and evil. North did what it had to do, and we are better off for it. I understand embracing history, else how can we learn for the future. Because history does repeat itself.
But talking about this versus that. There isnt. Its simply good versus evil, and good won. End of lesson. Next.
Also, you're wrong about good versus evil. Lots of shades of gray, just like that book your momma is so fond of.There was no correct narrative for slavery. It was abhorrent, and evil. North did what it had to do, and we are better off for it. I understand embracing history, else how can we learn for the future. Because history does repeat itself.
But talking about this versus that. There isnt. Its simply good versus evil, and good won. End of lesson. Next.
You can tell yourself that there wooly mammoth.Slavery was abhorrent and evil and needed to end, but the North did not go to war to end slavery. Yes, the South wanted to protect slavery, and yes, they feared the election of Lincoln would lead to a federal ending of slavery, which is why they seceded, but the North went to war to end secession, not slavery. They had no noble purpose other than bringing the South back into the fold, which, at the time, was very arguably un-Constitutional.