As usual, all of you who spend your entire waking hours for fresh meat to post in this hallowed forum are way off base. Doesn't being wrong all the time ever get tired for any of you? Obviously not.
The goal of the North at the beginning of the Civil War was to preserve the Union. Admittedly a rather abstract concept. Lincoln himself said "If I could preserve the Union by freeing all the slaves I would do it tomorrow. If I could preserve the Union by freeing none of the slaves I would also do that tomorrow." He only issued the Emancipation Proclamation after realizing the Union needed a stronger rally cry and he finally got his first battle victory at Antietam. Also notice said proclamation did not free the slaves in states that were still loyal to the union.
Lincoln was, in my opinion, the greatest president we have ever had. He was also a flawed human being and a product of his times. All white people back then truly believed black people were beneath them. Lincoln himself was shocked and amazed at how intelligent and articulate Fredick Douglas was. You no life Trump tards need to go find a dictionary and look up the meaning of those words.
The reason the South fought was more to preserve their way of life, which yes, slavery was a part of. But it did not have to come to that.
I will go to my grave believing the Civil War could have been avoided with effective leadership in the 15 to 20 years before Lincoln was elected. But we did not have it. Just like we don't have it right now with Trump. See how dangerous ineffective leadership can be.
Slavery would have died a natural death on it's own in the coming decades because the upcoming technological advancements would have rendered slavery economically unsustainable. So yes, I do think the Civil War was totally unnecessary.
It's too bad we did not have effective leadership in the years leading up to the Civil War or in the years after it ended.
There's the book you should read Gremlin Driver. A historical lesson in the dangers of Trump and his failed leadership. A president that intentionally attempts to divide the country is a very dangerous thing.
But of course you will never admit that. Originally Posted by Jam3768
there never would have been a slave trade or a civil war if it weren't for all that black intraracist tribal war. this inconvenient fact escapes blacks today. either they won't admit it or they never learned the truth and believe the media driven "whitey BAD" narrative to the point where blacks actually believe in "white privilege" and "systemic racism". nonsense! a loser's excuse for being a loser. real Americans .. will not tolerate a loser ..
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Originally Posted by JCM800
