There was no need to "stoke" the flame of succession. The expansion of the United States and the economic ramifications of slavery vs. capitalism was inevitable. The Emancipation Proclamation was a war time strategy to win the Civil War, not an end in of itself. The war was fought to preserve the Union. Lincoln says this literally. Though many people in the North thought slavery was terrible, they were probably just as racist as Southerners. That generation were the grandsons of people who fought the Revolutionary war. The Union was the only thing of its kind around the world. They fought to preserve it. Notice that AFTER the Civil War, people spoke of America as a "Nation" Before the Civil War people spoke of America as a "Union" Most people didn't think abolition of slavery was possible---but the Civil War was so bloody and raged for so long, people tried everything to win, and to end it. The abolition of Slavery was a CONSEQUENCE of the Civil War. A good and moral one, but originally people wanted to "Save the Union"

That means less than half.

@@kindnessfirst9670 Then why did the union have so much trouble keeping order? And why have you not paid reparations yet?

@@jeffmilroy9345 I don't understand what your question has to do with the definition of minority.

@@kindnessfirst9670 okay I will play along - you did not define 50 percent of we what population set. Neither did the professor.

Then our famous Scot & the father of modern economics Adam Smith resolutely was opposed to slavery. Of course, we are talking of a different era in humanity.

If you want to bring our government down without firing a shot, JUST STOP PAYING TAXES.

What does it prove about preserving democracy? Rather it set up unionization and loss of the countries industrial base and thus the very source of its existence.

Is traditional "Liberal Democracy" at stake? I say it has ALWAYS been at stake. Abraham Lincoln understood it was passion that drove the Southern states into armed rebellion. Signifying that certitude has a tendency to lead to violence. Plain and simple, war is awful.

@@jacobmasters438 War was necessary in 1861. Unconstitutional property seizure of enormous scale threatened with Lincoln's election.

The historic timeline shows that the first secession was declared after the election of Abraham Lincoln and many more followed. Then the violent attack on Fort Sumter. In other words someone's favored candidate for President didn't win so they started an insurrection. Sounds like January 6th of 2020. So i agree with you JM our liberal democracy always has quitters who can't stick to the rules when they feel threatened and don't get their way. Nothing has changed, we are not evolving as a group, and our democratic way of life is always threatened by self-absorbed malignant bad actors. Welcome to our unstable reality.

@@jacobmasters438 The historic timeline shows that the first secession was declared after the election of Abraham Lincoln and many more southern states followed. Then the violent attack on Fort Sumter. In other words someone's favored candidate for President didn't win so they started an insurrection. Sounds like January 6th of 2020. So i agree with you JM our liberal democracy always has quitters who can't stick to the rules when they feel threatened and don't get their way. Nothing has changed, we are not evolving as a group, and our democratic way of life is always threatened by self-absorbed malignant bad actors. Welcome to our unstable reality.

NASA NOT SO FUNNY JFK was appalled when he found out the OSS had not only brought over the 3rd reisch practically intact but realized how sick the deep state was (from ties to the mafia to working with UK to engineering WW1, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Depression, WW2) and made his way to the presidency, he thought to stop it. His archrival, ghwb, a former double agent and defacto COO of the cia, helped him get elected, to manipulate him for eight years (Norma Jean, and more). But JFK was going to outsmart them. The goons were setting up NASA (NAZI) as a money laundering scheme. Any undergrad engineer knows there are practical barriers to putting something in space that requires oxygen and a toilet too. The radiation, the vacuum, the temperature extremes, each singly make anything less than Space Mountain too shabby for the ride. The space race was much easier on Americans than the 'arms' race. Why did the Soviet Union need a Cold War? Same reason a whore needs a pimp. Like they really cared if Vietnam went Red, or thought they could out last US. So JFK baited them and then fucked them with "We'll do it inside the decade,” after all WW2 only took 3-4 years to destroy Europe, including 2000 years worth of Jewish communities, as well as who knows how much of Asia. Throwing a U-Boat at the moon is surely a cakewalk. ("Don't call me Shirley", Buzz Aldrin) My bet is ideally he was going to wait for his lame duck term willing to embarrass himself as a liar to the World, at the same time ending the oligarchy, or at least exposing it for All to see (like we do now). Maybe he was going to spill the beans in Dallas. BTW, They must have had tons of shit on his brothers too.

37 minutes "...the war was a square off between-" The Narrative is a Distraction, Dr. Guelzo. It is about gold and cannonballs. always, everywhere. Bizmark was the sociopath used by the bank of england to manipulate urope.

Proof that you know nothing...