• @sumguyonline
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    421 hours ago

    That’s fucked, straight up, they seceded from the Union because they believed in the right of an individual to own other individuals. There was no trade, no “disagreement” on anything other than the right to own people, now mind you, if you lived in the south you would be extremely interested to know the playbook they used to get poor white families that had never, and would never even be able to afford a house slave, let alone a field slave, to fight for the south “big government over reach” yup. “Uncle Sam’s telling us how to run our states and is gonna collapse our economy with big government over reach” just sounds too damn familiar doesn’t it? However what’s brutal, this current situation was caused by the Democrats, they alienated the “conservatives” when they dilapidated the rust belt with NAFTA. All those small towns left to rot because their good paying jobs moved to mexico, and frankly, once the people of Mexico wanted good pay, the corps moved further production to third world countries and only some assembly in Mexico thereby bypassing what NAFTA was for in the first place, leaving Mexico not really better off, the US further drained of hard earned resources for cheap products from third world countries that won’t last long enough for you to get ahead before needing a new one… But I digress! States rights! The civil war was over states believing their wealthy citizens had the right to own people. That is why they seceded.