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<blockquote data-quote="Judge Bean" data-source="post: 13361" data-attributes="member: 42"><p><strong>Civil unrest article found!</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Plenty of farmers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Down East. Plenty of mechanics serving in the Confederacy.</p><p></p><p>Thank God there wasn't as much industry in the South, or we'd still be fighting that war today.</p><p></p><p>The conflict as far as I know was a complex one in which people sought out their differences and killed one another over them. In the end, they found that the greatest differences were between common people and irresponsible leaders (such as Grant and Jeff Davis) who were willing to sacrifice thousands of lives for political glory. Sound familiar?</p><p></p><p>The conflict then was about power over the States: which rich people should be able to exploit the West, and should some of them be able to use slaves to do it? Shouldn't we clamp down on this urge for upstart empires and fiefdoms, put them under centralized control? (e.g., the "republics" of California, Utah, Texas; the "nations" of the tribes; the gigantic cattle and railroad "empires"). Who's in charge, the States or the Federal government? </p><p></p><p>Is our government a single thing, or a conglomerate?</p><p></p><p>Can we consider ourselves a free people when a lot of us are slaves?</p><p></p><p>You can see that, from my point of view, the old Civil War was a vast, stupid waste, fought over supposed differences among the American people that were exploited for the advantage of the Establishment, which had North and South branches. Who paid for it?</p><p></p><p>Who paid with their lives? Slaveholders? Rich people? Politicians? I guess a few of these, but if you put all of them together in one place, they probably wouldn't add up to a single regiment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Judge Bean, post: 13361, member: 42"] [b]Civil unrest article found![/b] Plenty of farmers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Down East. Plenty of mechanics serving in the Confederacy. Thank God there wasn't as much industry in the South, or we'd still be fighting that war today. The conflict as far as I know was a complex one in which people sought out their differences and killed one another over them. In the end, they found that the greatest differences were between common people and irresponsible leaders (such as Grant and Jeff Davis) who were willing to sacrifice thousands of lives for political glory. Sound familiar? The conflict then was about power over the States: which rich people should be able to exploit the West, and should some of them be able to use slaves to do it? Shouldn't we clamp down on this urge for upstart empires and fiefdoms, put them under centralized control? (e.g., the "republics" of California, Utah, Texas; the "nations" of the tribes; the gigantic cattle and railroad "empires"). Who's in charge, the States or the Federal government? Is our government a single thing, or a conglomerate? Can we consider ourselves a free people when a lot of us are slaves? You can see that, from my point of view, the old Civil War was a vast, stupid waste, fought over supposed differences among the American people that were exploited for the advantage of the Establishment, which had North and South branches. Who paid for it? Who paid with their lives? Slaveholders? Rich people? Politicians? I guess a few of these, but if you put all of them together in one place, they probably wouldn't add up to a single regiment. [/QUOTE]
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