Lincoln was a POS
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https://web.archive.org/web/20080517160026/http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/Spring2002/krannawitter.htmlDoog_de_Jour said:
Yeah, I’m bracing myself for some pretty poor writing.HHusky said:
Read one of them. Fucking awful.Doog_de_Jour said:Oh dear, this again.
I haven’t had the time, but there are a couple of books by an economics professor named Thomas DiLorenzo who shares @MikeDamone’s low opinions of Lincoln that I’d like to read out of curiosity, even though I hear they’re pretty bad.
I do disagree with the notion that slavery was on it’s last legs come the time of the Civil War. Even with the technological advancements of the Industrial Revolution taking hold, that was mostly in the North. Lands gained from the Mexican-American War were being carved up, and the Southern states wanted to expand slavery into those territories, even eyeing the possibility of taking over Central America and Cuba.
Yes, Lincoln was no angel. He suspended Habeas Corpus and toyed with the idea of shipping slaves to colonies. In most of the biographies it’s pointed out that he could also be coldly calculating at times...he was after all a politician.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lincolns-contested-legacy-44978351/
Still, I would not characterize him as a POS. While it’s true people put him on a pedestal, he was still a great leader, albeit an imperfect one. -
Stop showing off! This is Mike’s chance to be nuts.oregonblitzkrieg said:There's only one side, the central banks. Bankers, most of them foreign, still own and control the USA. The Civil War was just another banking war. America never really escaped British rule. America went to war against itself in order to preserve the wealth and power of the Rothschild banking cartel.
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oregonblitzkrieg said:
There's only one side, the central banks. Bankers, most of them foreign, still own and control the USA. The Civil War was just another banking war. America never really escaped British rule. America went to war against itself in order to preserve the wealth and power of the Rothschild banking cartel.
