FDR sucks cause he unconstitutionally imprisoned Japanese Americans.Preserve the Union by defeating those who would kill to destroy it for the sake of evil? Yes.
Dishonest Abe is great cause he unconstitutionally warred on Americans.
The South wanted to leave peacefully, but Abe said fuck you... I will kill you to came you.
Yes. He was also all for secession until he wasn't. His war was illegal, and his administration was illegal thuggery. What the South did or didn't support is irrelevant; secession wasn't illegal and Lincoln started the war, so only his motivations matter, not the South's. Lincoln's and the Republican Party's motivations were to create a massive welfare program for railroads and northern commercial interests, and to do so at the expense of taxing the South to pay for Federal projects that only benefited a few northern states, that's it, that was his whole policy.
We also know exactly what he had in mind to do with all those 'freed' slaves; they were to be confined to their plantations and not allowed to leave without the owner's written permission, and paid $3 a month wages. That was Lincoln's idea of 'freedom' for slaves, keep that cotton a comin' boys!
Lincoln committed the first act of war, blockading another country's ports, recognized all over the world as an act of war, and still is. That was the first 'shot' fired.
The 'Preserving The Union' nonsense was just silly sloganeering; all he wanted to 'preserve' was a fat tariff that fell far heavier on Southern interests than it did on railroads and northern business interests, hardly a glorious noble 'goal.
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