We're the Confederates right?

[montgomery69]

It's been 150 years since the Confederate States of America existed, and here we find ourselves with a federal government that has grown wildly out of control and is becoming tyrannical and more controlling every passing day, which is everything the Confederates feared about the Union. States rights in this country have become a joke; the US resembles a unitary state more than a federation. With the exception of slavery, did the Confederates have the right idea about having a country in which the states did their own thing on the most part, and worked together for common national interests (a government from the bottom-up)? What we have today is a country that's ruled from the top-down, where state governments behave more like puppet governments for Washington D.C. Take the legislation that Congress has recently approved like NDAA and Obamacare. If one state wants universal health care, they should have it, but if one state doesn't, then why should they? As for NDAA, why on earth would ANY state want that? State governments are more responsible and serve it's citizens better in my opinion, I can't imagine Sacramento (I live in California) ever passing a law like NDAA. Arizona's immigration legislation comes to mind as well, and while I don't agree with it, most Arizonans do. So I repeat, did the Confederates have the right idea?

[ammi]

While I am happy that the South stayed with the Union, they had every political right to secede peacefully.

[wal49]

No, the Conservative Confederates were not right. Just right-wing.

[garbhach65]

Yes. Back then every Black had a full time job and didn't run like wild animals

For Dixie's land we take our stand! To arms, to arms, to arms Dixie!

[montrel68]

Lincoln may have saved the Union but he destroyed the Constitution, especially the concept of a Federal government with strictly limited powers.

The Federal Government has grown into an all powerful tyranny such that if given the choice most Americans today would gladly trade our government for King George.

King George was a lot less repressive and took only a minute fraction of the taxes we pay now.

[cumhea]

If the north had attack those scum for being slave holders the north would have been right to do so. They didn't. Lincoln said his only purpose was to preserve the Union. Therefore the war was unjust on the part of the North. The south said it was about states rights which it wasn't since the only one they seemed to care about was the right to hold slaves. If it had been about states rights, the south would have been in the right to succeed. Each was in the right based upon what the real motivation of the other was, and both were in the wrong based upon their own motivation.

OF course, if the south had won they would be a third world country, or northern Mexico, today, so it worked out well for them.

[vaiveatoish]

THAT'S WHAT THE U.S. CONSTITUTION SAY'S!

[kendrix]

They were, to a man, Democrats, so, um, no.