History and Sexual Orientation

[MrFun]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
What's to distort or degrade? It was a naked power grab and a forced subordination of state sovereignty to a Federal nationalism which was repugnant to our founding fathers, but ever more convenient for dreams of empire which were so common from date of the enunciation of the Monroe Doctrine. It was even successful after a while.

No one can speak for the Revolutionary founding fathers, since none of us knew them personally, but I would tend to think that the founding fathers would have been ashamed with the seceding Southern states for tearing up a nation they created, just because the Southerners did not get their way -- they wanted minority rule over the majority in the federal government.

They also wanted to fight to the death, to preserve slavery, since slavery was the foundation of the Southern economy.
Just as in the Northern states, lower class white people were exploited in factories, on starvation wages -- that was the foundation for the Northern economy.

You cannot be patriotic today, and believe the mythical "lost cause" of the South -- how can you be patriotic when you think it's tragic that our country was NOT destroyed??
Oh yeah, and one more thing -- I'm sure there are very few blacks today, who mourn the loss of the Confederacy.