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"Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events."
posted ago by lefty295 ago by lefty295 +23 / -0

Just thought I'd leave a Lincoln quote from fucking 150+ years ago where he lays out how the Democratic strategy was exactly the same then as it is now. Carry on pedes. It's from his Cooper Union speeches (which are pretty good if you give them a read through).

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– workingman 1 point ago +1 / -0

This is the wisdom of Solomon. Though it's not some baby being butchered, it's the country.

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– lefty295 [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

I was reading through his speech and it just struck as chilling as hell that he was saying this stuff right before the civil war. It applies almost more so now than it even did then.

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