Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Is this where USA started down the drain?

To me, there is much said in this single paragraph.

"It is equally true of Lincoln. The PRIMARY accomplishment of his revolution was a permanent national debt and to establish the federal government as the handmaiden of corporations, which has continued to this day. You may deplore or applaud this fact, but it is a fact. It is hardly a secret. Northern leaders at the time said plainly, frequently, and emphatically that crushing the South was necessary to Northern prosperity. Lincoln’s self-contradictory but pretty words about government of the people was window-dressing. Truly, slavery was the most visible issue, though the division over that was not as great as is usually supposed. Plenty of Northerners moved to the South and owned slaves. Without any question Lincoln’s goal of forbidding slavery in the territories was not a matter of benevolence toward black people but of keeping the West as the domain of “free white men,” i.e., government sponsored capitalists. (The new States created by the Republicans west of the Missouri were not real States but pocket boroughs of the Copper Trust, the Union Pacific Railroad, etc.) The essential cause of the Republicans’ war against other Americans was that slave-owning Southerners had too much power and would not get with the self-evidently righteous program of Northern prosperity."

"Yet the people still have the capacity to exercise power through their indestructible States. State rights is merely an institutional aspect of the primary right of self-government."

Unless your governor thinks she's the queen.

Of course, it was the end of The Constitution. Anyone with any sense as long realized as much.

I’ve said essentially the same for many years.....though the writer presented it much more eloquently than I could ever have hoped to do. memtb

A whole lot of "48-ers" came to the ol’ USA in them days! Several were union army generals and went on to have pretty sucessful political careers during the Grant administration.

I dont think there is any question the government we have today is not even close to the government envisioned in the constitution. The federal government has emerged as the most powerful government and coerces the states by threatening to withold funding.

A return to constitutional government would eliminate 90% of the federal government. I have mixed feelings about things like sanctuary states, counties and cities, and legalizing marijuana but these things do represent an exertion of state's rights.

When women were allowed to vote is when schit went south!

Good answer.

Dindus not getting sent back to the jungle was another biggie.

Federal reserve was a huge thing.

Yep.

Great read, blind shooter.

Thanks for posting.

1788 was the beginning of the end.

It really went down the toilet when they let non landowners vote!