sudden valley gunner
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As a young boy I was fascinated and thought Lincoln was the greatest president, after all he freed the slaves what a great man!
Also we were taught how evil the south was the war was all their fault etc.
In fifth grade we moved to a new school in Washington, as a newcomer I was outcast the other outcast was a black kid so we hung out. A few months later a kid from Georgia moved up being new and having this strange accent he was the other outcast. The three of us became friends while at school. One day some other kids were picking on Andy because he was black. I shamefully did nothing to interfere fearing they would move to pick on me next. This southern kid from Georgia did not let it continue, and jumped in to help our friend enduring racial slurs and actually getting into a physical alteration with the other kids. I swore to myself that day I would never stand by and let something like that happen again, I have kept my word to myself never wanting to feel that sense of shame again.
This opened my eyes though, and I started asking the kid from Georgia about the south and about the war, he told me things I never learned and so I started researching it and to my horror Lincoln was not the person I was mislead to believe. That we were not supposed to be one nation, he freed no blacks, he was a tyrant and a racist bigot.
I also knew that I was never going to be a democrat, my mother was a welfare mom and I saw the damage that philosophy and that system did to us as children. So I assumed I sided with the republican/conservative side of things.
Years ago I realized I did not. I considered myself a constitutionalist but could see how the republicans mouthed words about the constitution yet failed to uphold it on so many levels. Reminding me of the scripture about "faith without works is dead."
After years of research I realized like other tyrannies they the state need their "champions" their "cult of personality".
Both democrats and republicans revere Lincoln who singlehandedly did the most to destroy constitutionally federated government and to centralize control and power. A revolution founded upon the right of secession was destroyed by a war to end that right.
The republican party was the original party of big government, high tariffs, corporate subsidies, centralized control, keeping America free for "free white labor" (the reason they opposed slavery at all, it competed with white labor, not the altruistic propaganda indoctrinated into young children), big military. Lincoln was a corporate lawyer lobbyist, who was given his own car for railroad use.
The democrats, not just those of the south, contrary to some belief there were anti slave, abolitionist democrats and classical liberals in the north. Were the ones for less government, more liberty, less tariffs, less interference, and more constitutional control. The Republicans were the progressives, another hero liked by them is Roosevelt (Teddy), who also did a lot of damage to liberty and increased the powers of government. Wilson run against him opposing him, opposing war, opposing big government spending, he then turned around and acted just like him. Since then the Democrats and the Republicans have been virtually the same. This is easy for anyone who steps outside the fake left right paradigm to see, but one has to step outside that paradigm.
So despite the ability to readily research Lincoln and to present facts about him, the cult followers like all good cult followers, will condemn any anti Lincoln statements as heretical against this god of the state.
Also we were taught how evil the south was the war was all their fault etc.
In fifth grade we moved to a new school in Washington, as a newcomer I was outcast the other outcast was a black kid so we hung out. A few months later a kid from Georgia moved up being new and having this strange accent he was the other outcast. The three of us became friends while at school. One day some other kids were picking on Andy because he was black. I shamefully did nothing to interfere fearing they would move to pick on me next. This southern kid from Georgia did not let it continue, and jumped in to help our friend enduring racial slurs and actually getting into a physical alteration with the other kids. I swore to myself that day I would never stand by and let something like that happen again, I have kept my word to myself never wanting to feel that sense of shame again.
This opened my eyes though, and I started asking the kid from Georgia about the south and about the war, he told me things I never learned and so I started researching it and to my horror Lincoln was not the person I was mislead to believe. That we were not supposed to be one nation, he freed no blacks, he was a tyrant and a racist bigot.
I also knew that I was never going to be a democrat, my mother was a welfare mom and I saw the damage that philosophy and that system did to us as children. So I assumed I sided with the republican/conservative side of things.
Years ago I realized I did not. I considered myself a constitutionalist but could see how the republicans mouthed words about the constitution yet failed to uphold it on so many levels. Reminding me of the scripture about "faith without works is dead."
After years of research I realized like other tyrannies they the state need their "champions" their "cult of personality".
Both democrats and republicans revere Lincoln who singlehandedly did the most to destroy constitutionally federated government and to centralize control and power. A revolution founded upon the right of secession was destroyed by a war to end that right.
The republican party was the original party of big government, high tariffs, corporate subsidies, centralized control, keeping America free for "free white labor" (the reason they opposed slavery at all, it competed with white labor, not the altruistic propaganda indoctrinated into young children), big military. Lincoln was a corporate lawyer lobbyist, who was given his own car for railroad use.
The democrats, not just those of the south, contrary to some belief there were anti slave, abolitionist democrats and classical liberals in the north. Were the ones for less government, more liberty, less tariffs, less interference, and more constitutional control. The Republicans were the progressives, another hero liked by them is Roosevelt (Teddy), who also did a lot of damage to liberty and increased the powers of government. Wilson run against him opposing him, opposing war, opposing big government spending, he then turned around and acted just like him. Since then the Democrats and the Republicans have been virtually the same. This is easy for anyone who steps outside the fake left right paradigm to see, but one has to step outside that paradigm.
So despite the ability to readily research Lincoln and to present facts about him, the cult followers like all good cult followers, will condemn any anti Lincoln statements as heretical against this god of the state.
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