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SheThinksLiberty's avatar

Oh, CL, was a wonderful article. Thank you!

I think it was David Icke (??) who said just the other day that people can be addicted to many things. Of those, of course, we have the usual: Drugs, sex, alcohol, coffee (my drug of choice as it happens), porn, sports, etc.

Icke went on to say something else that struck me: People can also be addicted to...fantasies.

I would submit that if a nation, a people, were ever addicted to fantasies, it's "Americans." Addicted to a fantasy about themselves, their country, its goodness (which it was -- for about five minutes), and by extension 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 goodness.

Suggest that Lincoln was a son of a bitch. A mental case, a tyrant, a loon who destroyed the very foundation of the republic -- and see what you get from the fantasists. Express shock that a nation whose very existence came from secession could prohibit it or through violence deny it. Ask how the Confederates' wish to secede could be a "rebellion," and see what you get.

Remind people that the State of West Virginia resulted from secession...from the State of Virginia and see what response the fantasists give you.

I say it's time to turn the tables on 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 we think we know about everything, including Lincoln. And I MEAN 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈.

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Nefahotep's avatar

Very hard hitting article.

Excellent comparison between the Revolutionary War and Civil War. The whole concept of the "Union" being preserved as purpose for the War is a fallacy. Especially because of the clarity you provide here.

A Union is something formed by Voluntarily coming together; a Joining, not a Conquest.

When ever a Union is being "forced," someone is being Raped. And that is exactly what happened to the South, as you have correctly illustrated.

It is also arguable that both of those Wars were essentially only Civil Wars, because the same Financial / Economic and Banking structure ruled both The British Empire and American Colonies, due to the debt created by borrowing for fighting of both Wars -- both sides borrowed from the same financiers.

In fact, the Civil War was primarily fought over the use of Debt based currency, and the City of London wanting to hold America over a barrel.

Whatever is built on a bed of lies, will fall apart. To change that, we must realize the truth.

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