Not my reading of history. The Confederacy won most of all early battles, had better generals, and organized quickly. The Union had an industrial base, much better infrastructure and railroads, and the moral anti-slavery stance. Plus, an alignment historically with the powers of banking etc. This gave the Union the long term advantage.
Calling the Union an inherently evil big government is a red herring. The Confederacy was an agrarian oligarchy that treated its blacks and poor whites as less than human. The transformation of that bullying power into the KKK is a kind of proof. It’s who they always were.
Lincoln sidestepped the Constitution to save it. That’s not fantasy. American history is a struggle between ideals and a less than ideal reality. But the Union was the better side, embodied a closer adherence to both the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
Discrediting the fight against slavery is not a helpful allegory in the current Culture War.
Not my reading of history. The Confederacy won most of all early battles, had better generals, and organized quickly. The Union had an industrial base, much better infrastructure and railroads, and the moral anti-slavery stance. Plus, an alignment historically with the powers of banking etc. This gave the Union the long term advantage.
Calling the Union an inherently evil big government is a red herring. The Confederacy was an agrarian oligarchy that treated its blacks and poor whites as less than human. The transformation of that bullying power into the KKK is a kind of proof. It’s who they always were.
Lincoln sidestepped the Constitution to save it. That’s not fantasy. American history is a struggle between ideals and a less than ideal reality. But the Union was the better side, embodied a closer adherence to both the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
Discrediting the fight against slavery is not a helpful allegory in the current Culture War.