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Bullet3250 140 points ago +143 / -3

BY A DEMOCRAT.

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24601 -2 points ago +3 / -5

Bankers and Globalist Democrats...

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randomusers239874 7 points ago +7 / -0

Not at the time; the democrats then would have been more conservative than conservatives now. In fact, the war actually started because the North wanted to keep tariffs on imported goods, and the South didn't (as it hurt their economy more), so if anything the Southerners were "globalists" in that sense of the word.

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24601 4 points ago +4 / -0

I don't buy any of the "official" narrative of either "side" anymore...

I'd bet that the Civil War was an artificial divide purposefully instituted for the purpose of power consolidation by the Big Business of the day... whatever "side" that might have been. Just like today's Uniparty... the Uniparty from 1860 wasn't neatly divided North and South.

Before 2020, I would argue one or the other "side" of the discussion, and try to figure out who had facts on their side. But now, I don't buy any of it...

There are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq === The North and South are at war because of slavery or tariffs or xyz thing

We, the common citizens, have been duped by the ruling class since Washington finished up the Revolution.