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Originally Posted by isitatomic
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E-peen waving is not possible as mine crusted over and fell off years ago.
Basically: Leave your idea of heritage not being properly venerated and whatnot at the door. I guess I put too much confidence in all potential readers to fully understand my analogy without getting emotional. Allow me to spell it out for you, sans drama, just the facts.
The Confederate States of America...
*Known predominantly for fighting to preserve the practice of slavery
*Lost the civil war
*Wound up on the wrong side of history
Let's assume that we all understand that the CSA was dissolved MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO. Let's also assume that "the glory days" MUST have existed prior to its dissolution. Assuming all of this (which is safe to do, because they are things called "facts"), the glory days were the days of slavery.
Missing the point of the Union's success and subsequent emancipation serves as a reminder that some people are just always going to miss the point.
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Common misnomer, Slavery was not the main issue when it came down to it, it just happened to be one of the most important once History was written. It was mainly about states rights. As most know we had a union that had so LITTLE federal government, it fell apart and the the size had to increase enough to stabilize it as a whole, and the confederates opposed this.
I'm not saying slavery was not an issue, but when people call it out as the huge single issue of the Civil war I kinda laugh because its absolutely wrong, especially when you finally read into things, beyond a public school education.
Also the CSA being disolved has nothing to do with them being viable as I said, the tenets of an organization can live on, and the independence, liberty and self governance that the CSA initially stood for, lives on in both of our main political parties today, some more than others.