I was typing at stoplights lol.

I know this thread is not about slavery and more about the forming of the Republican Party but I just felt it was necessary to point out that it was a far different Republican Party back then. While slavery is abhorrent, it was accepted back then across the globe and the US were “small-timers” in the slave game. Slavery would have eventually, but slowly, naturally ended over time. It costs a fortune to house, feed, clothe, and care for your labor force when you could just pay a minimum type wage or scrip. almost everyone who lived back then would be considered a racist today.

There were numerous reasons for secession and it varied from state to state. Read each state’s Ordinace for Secession and you will find they all opposed ending slavery but also felt their state’s interests were not being fairly represented by the Federal government. Sound familiar today? Are your tax dollars being wasted and no one listens to your grievances?

Read a history book written before the Civil Rights era and compare it to today. Ask a grandparent how they were taught about the Civil War. If they remember, they might tell a different story but over time they might have latched onto the alternate history due to media influence.

Because history repeats itself, just step back & put yourself in the shoes of someone who lived in that time and experienced everything first hand. My grandfather told me stories about fighting in World War II. He told me stories that his grandfather told him about fighting in the Civil War and fighting off Comanche attacks on his farm in Texas. He didn’t own any slaves and never cared to. His home, Texas, was being threatened by the Northern invaders and he joined the Confederate Army to protect his land, neighbors, and family from what he perceived as tyranny and physical danger to those he loved.

A number of my ancestors fought in that war. They were from North Carolina, Alabama, mostly Texas, and Illinois and they all had their own reasons just like my great great etc. grandfather fought the British out of the 96th District of South Carolina. It’s mind blowing to me that the Civil War was not really that long ago if my grandfather’s grandfather fought in it. We still have his powder horn on our fireplace.

The big take-away is to try to take everything we have been taught and try to figure out what is true and what is not true. Who is teaching us and why do they want us to learn it their way. Who wrote the books and what is the author’s motivation. Primary sources are the best.

Never look at history they way you want to see it. Look only at the facts even if those facts disappoint you. I was super disappointed to learn Lincoln was trash. He was one of the first Presidents to merge corporate/business interests and state interests in a major way while neglecting half the country. He was taxing the South at a higher rate, especially through tariffs, and spending that money mostly on big Northern cities and railroads and he was in their pocket like Biden is in China/Ukraine’s pockets. I found it interesting that not one Confederate ship imported slaves into the county (slave importation had already been abolished) but interesting to think about.

I was disappointed to learn that there were still slaves in the North after the Civil War for a short time and that slavery was only abolished initially in the South. If the war was about ending slavery, how could this be true? Because what they taught us was all bs. I was disappointed when I learned that Lincoln did want to abolish slavery (a good thing) but had no desire to let blacks integrate amongst whites. Also of note, it was former Northern commanders that led the genocide against the Native Americans. Food for thought. I started digging and realized that we were being fed a lot of misinfo in our public school books. It is not the version of history I wanted to hear but it doesn’t matter if it is true.

After a while, it is easy to put two and two together & see that history is repeating itself. The nation is being divided, albeit in a different way than simple North and South. It’s another banker war coming from WEF types that want to control us so they can live better and retain power.

Don’t take anything I say as gospel. Do your own research and come to your own conclusions fren. 😃