Enough, already. You can argue all you want about whether the Civil War was about slavery, Northern aggression, cultural differences, economic imperialism, blahblahblahbittyBLAHblah; but the war itself was the act of traitors to the United States of America. Period. Read the Constitution if you don’t believe it.
And the stars and bars are the flag of the army that fought in favor of treason, sedition, and other crimes against the Constitution. Regardless of your political feelings, that is what the flag stood for. It was not a flag that extolled the virtues of biscuits and gravy, gumbo or other truly excellent bits of Southern culture: it was the flag carried by those who wanted to burn, murder and rape in the service of their mission to overthrow a legitimately elected government.
So, if you consider yourself an “American Patriot”, just WTF are you doing, displaying the Stars and Bars?
Mr. Blunt and Cranky
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and we know it WAS about slavery because the seceeding states damn well SAID so.
Correct. My point was not that there was any question, but rather that the pro-slavery caucus should not even bring that fetid pile of “reasoning” to the table.
No, they seceded because Abraham Lincoln got exactly 0 electoral votes from the South. Which meant that their entire bulk of not wanting an abolitionist President amounted to a whole lot of “zilch”.
So, while the slavery deal was steeped throughout the entire reasons of everything about why they attempted to secede, their “stated” reasons for doing so were: “apparently, our votes don’t fucking matter.”
Guess what, Eira: the Confederacy agreed to the terms of the election before it was held. Only after they lost did they decide that the laws were badbadbad, ohsoverybadindeed. Sore losers on a grand scale who launched a war that killed many people and nearly wrecked our nation. Crybabies, and murderous ones at that.