Thats what happens when the victor is the only one allowed to print history books. If the American people had a brain an wanted the truth about all events it would be different. However what we are seeing now is no different that it was before that event. Northern aggression is still in play with the help of those outside of our borders. However this time around what has become the rust belt with added lies, changes the equation somewhat,...
There is a good argument to be made that the Civil War tensions are not that different from those occurring today. We talk about it as North vs. South. But, really, it was rural vs. urban. Manufacturing vs. planting. Cities vs. country. The fact was that outside of a few small areas (Mobile, Atlanta, Tidewater) the South had little industrial capacity. It was a rural society. Planters and small farmers. Who valued their independence and revered their states/communities/traditions above all.
The North by 1860 was heavily urbanized. The abolition movement was coming out of the urban 'thought' centers, the universities and the new 'newspaper' industry which was now industrialized thanks to printing presses, pulp mills and telegraphs. These urban areas could support populations of academics, philosophers and (to use a pejorative term) shit-disturbers. Who had all kinds of causes ranging from temperance to early progressivism to unions/labor organizing to abolition. And they wanted to force their Utopian ideas on the population across the country... And thanks to the surpluses created by industrialization... they had the money to do it. (remind you of the Wall St. traders of today???)
Once you get a society that is rich enough to support a leisure class and, daresay, a philosopher class... they will sit around all day and try and force their great ideas on the producer class. And because they view themselves as superior (clean hands and all.. don't have to dig ditches like those stupid Epsilon Semi-Morons), they feel they have a duty and a right to force their views on everyone. So they have a pathological need to put their philosophies into action. And because they are superior, in their minds, their actions are justified in their minds.
Don't for a second think that the Civil War was 'just' North vs. South. There were plenty of copperhead Northerners. A LOT of Northern workers wanted nothing to do with abolition and emancipation because many felt that if a lot of 'low wage' blacks came North, which they were sure to do, their jobs were at risk and/or their wages would be depressed. The Klan in the 1920's was larger and more powerful in the North than in the South (though it was sort of a 'new Klan... an interesting history there, too) due to blue collar concern their jobs. The percentage of Northern men who actually fought was tiny. With huge percentages of the Civil War soldiers being immigrants fresh off the boats from Ireland, Germany, Eastern Europe, etc. Established 'Americans' fought in much smaller numbers. As Shelby Foot wrote (and I paraphrase) "The North fought the Civil War with one hand tied behind its back. Not a single member of the Harvard Rowing team signed up. Yale, Princeton, Harvard... it was business as usual. Consumer goods production increased to supply a rich Northern War economy." The Civil War Barons got richer and richer off a war they demanded, but their sons avoided in droves.
A lot of it comes down to the old argument of 'Makers and Takers.' Once the 'takers' get established to the point that they not only live off the fat of the people who work... AND decide that they are going to control the 'makers,' then things go sideways fast.
Sound familiar? How many of the folks pushing today's 'civil war' have ever picked up a wrench. Worked a job. Gotten a paycheck. Started a business. Sweated a payroll on a Thursday? Or are they all just filled with ideas that have no basis in reality... utopian B.S. How many of them are the spoiled children of rich paper-traders, lawyers and academic Utopians and Marxists?
Thoughts for a Sunday. There is no North South. I'd say there 'really' never was. Maybe not even an Urban Rural. There are makers and takers. The makers have had enough. The Takers want more. Including servitude... a servile class of makers who are taking care of their needs in a distant capital. Hunger Games anyone? 1860 anyone?
Sirhr
P.S. What kicked off festivities in 1861 was the election of Lincoln... who was believed to represent the "Takers" by the Southern planter class. Lincoln was not even in the ballot in a lot of Southern states. He barely squeaked through a majority in the North in 1860. The previous administration had been known as the "Do Nothing's" led by James Buchanan. Who let the fuse burn until it was too late. He didn't put a clamp on things... or reaffirm for Southern Americans that their way of life was safe. His administration was paralyzed and/or simply not interested in the issue. November of this year has the potential to be the spark. Unless the current administration 'does something' about what is happening. They could end up as the 'do nothings' and the fuse is burning in so many ways. Don't for a second think that if the radical left seizes power in November they won't go completely Germany 1933 on America.
