I used to agree with Razor's take here, but a couple years ago I had this epiphany: The South were all ran by Democrats. So if you assume for a second that the bastards behaved in the same lying, ultra manipulative, maliciously-complying, gaslighting and backstabbing bullshit ways as they do today, then it becomes understandable exactly why Lincoln had to behave the way he did. Pretend for a moment that Southern California and Portland just announced they were seceding from the Union over tranny rights or some equally hot bullshit social cause cause. Imagine how corrupt and rigged and slimy everything around it would be, and how much overbearing force and bullshitting of our own it would take to rip that crap out by the roots and end it.
And tell me the Dems there wouldn't spend the next hundred years whining about it as "muh glorious lost cause." You know they would. So today, even knowing what Razor is on about I cut Lincoln a whole lot of slack.
If you want a simplification the powerful slave owners who were a minority mostly cared for their bottom line which necessitated slavery remaining legal which meant states had to be able to declare their own laws outside if those solely invested in federal government by the constitution the same but opposite for the factory owners of the north. Everyone else had a myriad of interests including just basic freedom from a segment of the country that to this day views them as undignified hicks deserving to be mocked.
I used to agree with Razor's take here, but a couple years ago I had this epiphany: The South were all ran by Democrats. So if you assume for a second that the bastards behaved in the same lying, ultra manipulative, maliciously-complying, gaslighting and backstabbing bullshit ways as they do today, then it becomes understandable exactly why Lincoln had to behave the way he did. Pretend for a moment that Southern California and Portland just announced they were seceding from the Union over tranny rights or some equally hot bullshit social cause cause. Imagine how corrupt and rigged and slimy everything around it would be, and how much overbearing force and bullshitting of our own it would take to rip that crap out by the roots and end it.
And tell me the Dems there wouldn't spend the next hundred years whining about it as "muh glorious lost cause." You know they would. So today, even knowing what Razor is on about I cut Lincoln a whole lot of slack.
If you want a simplification the powerful slave owners who were a minority mostly cared for their bottom line which necessitated slavery remaining legal which meant states had to be able to declare their own laws outside if those solely invested in federal government by the constitution the same but opposite for the factory owners of the north. Everyone else had a myriad of interests including just basic freedom from a segment of the country that to this day views them as undignified hicks deserving to be mocked.