Does any of this matter?
The American Civil War ended in June 1865, just over 150 years ago.
It's over, done, can't get a mulligan and do it over with 20/20 hindsight.
Why not expend your energy on something that you might actually be able to influence?
It matters because you have to have an understanding of history to get why things are today as they are. You can't worship Lincoln and curse Obama. They are the same. They both see something they think needs done and they are doing it, regardless of the constitution or the law.
And more importantly, the actions of Lincoln directly paved the was for Obama. If Lincoln hadn't settled the issue of states' rights and secession by force of arms, one essential check on the power of the federal government would not be in the dustbin of history.
Lincoln was a tool of the industrialists and the bankers. He delivered this republic gift wrapped into their greedy hands. He enslaved us all, ostensibly to free the slaves.
