UrbanMysticDee 
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Finally finishing a book by talk show host Michael Savage that’s been on my shelf for years not being read. It’s full of lies.
There’s something that really sticks in my craw and that’s when people attack a person, place, or thing that they hate NOT by listing the very real bad things that that person, place, or thing did, but by making up bullshit lies, like all the lies people told about Donald Trump that I wrote an entire chapter about in my first book. There are very real things Trump did that were bad, you can hate him for that, but if you make up shit that he didn’t do and pretend like it’s reality then that just makes you an asshole and a liar.
Savage does the same about the people, places, and things he doesn’t like in his book. The lies about child labor (which was ended by adult labor unionists who could vote not wanting their jobs stolen by children who didn’t pay union dues and couldn’t vote, not the magical invisible hand of the industrial revolution free market increasing wages of adults so that children didn’t need to work), about famine in the Soviet Union continuing until 1991 and then magically disappearing when Russia became capitalist(when famine had existed in Russia usually every 30 years for as long as Russia has existed, some 400 years prior to the formation of the Soviet Union, and the very last famine actually happened under Stalin in the 1940s), and about young people not having jobs because they are all lazy and all have worthless degrees (including in growth industries like education and healthcare, which he admits later on will see dramatic growth in the near future) and then a chapter later saying that all the people with “good” degrees who didn’t exist in the previous chapter can’t get jobs because they are replaced with visa workers who are paid a fraction of the wage as an American, I’ll deal with those lies in my book of the real history of the 20th century. Right now I want to talk about the Civil War and his conspiracy theory about how it started.
Yes, the Civil War was about slavery. The southern states were the ones who seceded. They wrote articles of secession that mention the primary reason for secession as being the preservation of slavery. The southern army launched the first unprovoked attack against the north at Fort Sumter.
You can say the Civil War was a tragedy, a lost cause, that black people aren’t human, that slavery is good and moral, that Abe Lincoln is the devil and a tyrant and the worst president ever, that LOLbertarianism is somehow perfectly compatible with the existence of slavery, and that the south should have won, that’s all well and good, that’s your opinion.
What you don’t get to do is make shit up about “state’s rights” (when the states themselves admit the only right they were trying to preserve is the right to keep slaves), or say that the war was started by northern robber barons who wanted to dislodge southern plantation owners from the federal government. That’s no longer an opinion, that’s fake facts that didn’t happen.
James Buchanan, the President before Lincoln, was not a southern plantation owner, he was born in Pennsylvania, a free state. Half of his cabinet were also from free states, and several who were from slave states were from northern slave states (Kentucky and Maryland). His only Supreme Court appointee was from Maine. 6 out of 13 Supreme Court justices who were appointed between 1830 and 1860 were from southern states.
Southern Democrats lost power in Congress in 1855 when the Opposition Party (that was their real name) was created of people who opposed the official Democrat platform of spreading slavery beyond the states where it already existed but weren’t for abolishing slavery entirely. Prior to that southern pro-slavery parties only had a slim majority on and off starting in 1820s (they went back and forth with the Whigs and Anti-Jacksonians as to who was in control).
In fact, anti-slavery forces did their best to eliminate the peculiar institution from the end of the Revolution until the 1830s when better-designed cotton gins made cotton a profitable crop, which increased southern power.
It’s only in that 25 year window, really, that pro-slavery southern politicians had any real power in government and when the southern states dominated the US economy. I guess you can “technically” say that that was “prior to the Civil War”, but that’s stretching what those words mean.
There’s something that really sticks in my craw and that’s when people attack a person, place, or thing that they hate NOT by listing the very real bad things that that person, place, or thing did, but by making up bullshit lies, like all the lies people told about Donald Trump that I wrote an entire chapter about in my first book. There are very real things Trump did that were bad, you can hate him for that, but if you make up shit that he didn’t do and pretend like it’s reality then that just makes you an asshole and a liar.
Savage does the same about the people, places, and things he doesn’t like in his book. The lies about child labor (which was ended by adult labor unionists who could vote not wanting their jobs stolen by children who didn’t pay union dues and couldn’t vote, not the magical invisible hand of the industrial revolution free market increasing wages of adults so that children didn’t need to work), about famine in the Soviet Union continuing until 1991 and then magically disappearing when Russia became capitalist(when famine had existed in Russia usually every 30 years for as long as Russia has existed, some 400 years prior to the formation of the Soviet Union, and the very last famine actually happened under Stalin in the 1940s), and about young people not having jobs because they are all lazy and all have worthless degrees (including in growth industries like education and healthcare, which he admits later on will see dramatic growth in the near future) and then a chapter later saying that all the people with “good” degrees who didn’t exist in the previous chapter can’t get jobs because they are replaced with visa workers who are paid a fraction of the wage as an American, I’ll deal with those lies in my book of the real history of the 20th century. Right now I want to talk about the Civil War and his conspiracy theory about how it started.
Yes, the Civil War was about slavery. The southern states were the ones who seceded. They wrote articles of secession that mention the primary reason for secession as being the preservation of slavery. The southern army launched the first unprovoked attack against the north at Fort Sumter.
You can say the Civil War was a tragedy, a lost cause, that black people aren’t human, that slavery is good and moral, that Abe Lincoln is the devil and a tyrant and the worst president ever, that LOLbertarianism is somehow perfectly compatible with the existence of slavery, and that the south should have won, that’s all well and good, that’s your opinion.
What you don’t get to do is make shit up about “state’s rights” (when the states themselves admit the only right they were trying to preserve is the right to keep slaves), or say that the war was started by northern robber barons who wanted to dislodge southern plantation owners from the federal government. That’s no longer an opinion, that’s fake facts that didn’t happen.
James Buchanan, the President before Lincoln, was not a southern plantation owner, he was born in Pennsylvania, a free state. Half of his cabinet were also from free states, and several who were from slave states were from northern slave states (Kentucky and Maryland). His only Supreme Court appointee was from Maine. 6 out of 13 Supreme Court justices who were appointed between 1830 and 1860 were from southern states.
Southern Democrats lost power in Congress in 1855 when the Opposition Party (that was their real name) was created of people who opposed the official Democrat platform of spreading slavery beyond the states where it already existed but weren’t for abolishing slavery entirely. Prior to that southern pro-slavery parties only had a slim majority on and off starting in 1820s (they went back and forth with the Whigs and Anti-Jacksonians as to who was in control).
In fact, anti-slavery forces did their best to eliminate the peculiar institution from the end of the Revolution until the 1830s when better-designed cotton gins made cotton a profitable crop, which increased southern power.
It’s only in that 25 year window, really, that pro-slavery southern politicians had any real power in government and when the southern states dominated the US economy. I guess you can “technically” say that that was “prior to the Civil War”, but that’s stretching what those words mean.
