and really has nothing to do with the Civil War fought over states rights and slavery.
what the war was about has zip do with how or why it won.
which has no bearing on how American life is today.
Oh, but it most certainly does have something to do with how American life is today!
There were other factors, but the one the South used as justification for seceding was "taxation without representation". I'll give a short explanation of that statement and if that's not enough I'll give a longer one.
The textile mills in the North were owned by filthy rich industry moguls who worked girls and boys as young as six years old to death in their mills. These moguls lived like Mid-evil Lords in their mansions on the Hudson and on the Massachusetts seacoast. They depended on cheap cotton from the South to maintain their 'serfdoms'. They bought and sold Senators and Congressmen like livestock. They made sure the power in Congress was centered in the northeastern States by controlling how new States were allowed to enter the Union, keeping the cotton producing States in the minority. By controlling Congress they got import/export Laws passed that guaranteed a continuous uninterrupted flow of cheap cotton from the South. How did this work? Okay another short explanation; They put a tax on exported cotton that gave the Northern textile moguls an unfair advantage. They also put an import tax on cloth and clothes from England that gave the textile moguls even further advantage.
The Southern States tried through all the legal means to gain fair and equal representation in Congress to no avail. They had no other recourse than seceding. They saw in the United States Declaration Of Independence the right, no, not the right, the Duty to secede and set up their own Government.
Now, I don't condone slavery, but I do agree with the right of States to secede from a Tyrannical United States Government. Abraham Lincoln violated the united States Constitution when he invaded Virginia.
Oh, Fort Sumter? It belonged to the State of South Carolina by Sovereignty. The U.S. was unconstitutionally occupying it.
It's ironic how import/export taxes were seen as okay to support child labor to the point of death in the mills in the past, but not okay to support manufacturing jobs in the U.S. today. AND THAT IS WHAT IT HAS TO DO WITH LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY!!
90% of politicians have a price and the business moguls are always there to buy them.
Don't blame the Corporations without including the politicians, and Democrat politicians are the biggest recipients of Corporate funds.
I hate both Parties but the "Scumbag Factor" tips the scale with me, with the Democrats owning the "Scumbag Factor".
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