Those folks know massive amounts of minute details about that war but always seem to forget that it was about having the South’s right to own people as property.
They always say it’s states rights and conveniently ignore that it was the states right to own slaves that was at the top of the list. They will absolutely argue that point and refuse to acknowledge the truth of the matter. I’ve tried
It was about new states having the right to slavery. Both sides of the war had slavery, and the union only abolished it in confederate states. The eventual amendment kept slavery for prisoners so you know it wasn’t anti-slavery. They felt new states without slaves wouldn’t vote in their best interest. To reduce it to slavery shows an inability to relate the events to present times.
For instance PR isn’t a state because both sides think they will support the other. Or Gerrymandering is done union wide to ensure states vote for the party that implements it.
Or Gerrymandering is done union wide to ensure states vote for the party that implements it.
This is bothsidesism. What the GOP does with gerrymandering is insane compared to how the democrats engage in it. Also it is the stated goal of the Democratic Party to get rid of gerrymandering. Right now they are only using it in response to Republicans using it FAR outside the norms and laws regarding redistricting.
Those folks know massive amounts of minute details about that war but always seem to forget that it was about having the South’s right to own people as property.
They always say it’s states rights and conveniently ignore that it was the states right to own slaves that was at the top of the list. They will absolutely argue that point and refuse to acknowledge the truth of the matter. I’ve tried
So you’re saying they chose to be a liar.
It was about new states having the right to slavery. Both sides of the war had slavery, and the union only abolished it in confederate states. The eventual amendment kept slavery for prisoners so you know it wasn’t anti-slavery. They felt new states without slaves wouldn’t vote in their best interest. To reduce it to slavery shows an inability to relate the events to present times.
For instance PR isn’t a state because both sides think they will support the other. Or Gerrymandering is done union wide to ensure states vote for the party that implements it.
This is bothsidesism. What the GOP does with gerrymandering is insane compared to how the democrats engage in it. Also it is the stated goal of the Democratic Party to get rid of gerrymandering. Right now they are only using it in response to Republicans using it FAR outside the norms and laws regarding redistricting.
Great follow up, though that wasn’t the direction of my conversation.
We’ll all go down to Dixie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhSzuhdIkuE