Sadly for the South, Lincoln ran circles around Davis as a President and Commander in Chief.
A "confederation" cannot defeat a "federation" and a "Defense" cannot defeat an "Offense" all things being equal, and the South was no where equal to the North with the exception of the Gen Lee/ Jackson combination.
But without an early Confederate taking of DC the gig was up as superior force resided in the North.
As far as historical politics, the USA Republic probably was surrendered paradoxically with the CSA in 1865. The following Domestic Indian Wars by the Union Army, and the establishment of the Phillipines as a colony following the Spanish-American War birthed the American Empire.
WW1, Wilson ; WW2, FDR ; created the bureaucrazy necessary for expansion into the current
NSA/Cia/Fib/ATF/IRS/ and Etc Feral/State Polezi/Intel Agencies are out of Pandora's Box.
What's Next ??? I do know the current democRat/rinoRat/NeoCon/"Money" paradigms cannot solve or survive the coming times.
The rubber will truly hit the road when the People recall JFK's warning about secret societies running the world. Meantime, both he and Lincoln were assassinated. Nothing to see here, folks. As for Lincoln's early demise, the Jesuits have much mayhem to answer for. As for Cracker Barrels, every major 'global' corporation is owned by just a few families, and they reside in Europe (or thereabouts). As long as the "Guvt" is funded by corporate lobbyists-We the People have no government... It's called 'taxation without representation' as I'm sure most folks realize by now.
This "most fundamental American right," the right to be left alone, was only held broadly in the South. It is a quintessentially Southern notion. The Puritan Yankee society that controlled Northern politics was too domineering and self-righteous to hold such a belief. When the CSA was defeated, this political ideal was put on life support, and finally given the suffocating pillow of the so-called civil rights movement. Still held in the heart of many a southerner, this ideal will hopefully revive into political power when "muh democracy" inevitably collapses from its Clown World foundation of lies.
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Sadly for the South, Lincoln ran circles around Davis as a President and Commander in Chief.
A "confederation" cannot defeat a "federation" and a "Defense" cannot defeat an "Offense" all things being equal, and the South was no where equal to the North with the exception of the Gen Lee/ Jackson combination.
But without an early Confederate taking of DC the gig was up as superior force resided in the North.
As far as historical politics, the USA Republic probably was surrendered paradoxically with the CSA in 1865. The following Domestic Indian Wars by the Union Army, and the establishment of the Phillipines as a colony following the Spanish-American War birthed the American Empire.
WW1, Wilson ; WW2, FDR ; created the bureaucrazy necessary for expansion into the current
NSA/Cia/Fib/ATF/IRS/ and Etc Feral/State Polezi/Intel Agencies are out of Pandora's Box.
What's Next ??? I do know the current democRat/rinoRat/NeoCon/"Money" paradigms cannot solve or survive the coming times.
The rubber will truly hit the road when the People recall JFK's warning about secret societies running the world. Meantime, both he and Lincoln were assassinated. Nothing to see here, folks. As for Lincoln's early demise, the Jesuits have much mayhem to answer for. As for Cracker Barrels, every major 'global' corporation is owned by just a few families, and they reside in Europe (or thereabouts). As long as the "Guvt" is funded by corporate lobbyists-We the People have no government... It's called 'taxation without representation' as I'm sure most folks realize by now.
This "most fundamental American right," the right to be left alone, was only held broadly in the South. It is a quintessentially Southern notion. The Puritan Yankee society that controlled Northern politics was too domineering and self-righteous to hold such a belief. When the CSA was defeated, this political ideal was put on life support, and finally given the suffocating pillow of the so-called civil rights movement. Still held in the heart of many a southerner, this ideal will hopefully revive into political power when "muh democracy" inevitably collapses from its Clown World foundation of lies.