Question: What was The Civil War Fought Over?

[sheshe2]

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[elleng]

1. Commerce

[RockRaven]

2. She is shameless, of course, but she was governor of a state who "seceeded"

or tried to, and they said EXACTLY WHY in the documents they created regarding that.

And then an armed party of insurrectionists from that state fired upon a federal military force/site.

The proximate cause of the Civil War was that act of violence, and the cause of that act of violence was explained in those documents... And she knows nothing of those documents?

Given that she was governor of that very state, and was repeatedly involved in pathetic fracas regarding the history of that state, she is openly displaying her disqualifying ignorance (and that is the most charitable interpretation -- which is more than she deserves based on her prior behavior).

[Hieronymus Phact]

3. She made me think of this

[Cartoonist]

4. States rights (to own slaves).

The confederates always leave out the words in parentheses.

[Waterguy]

5. No. Really states rights was a message they sold

Little kids like me, in the early sixties,
that's what they taught,
even though I knew what was clearly evident,

and I did not know much at the time.

I was never correct about life,
a lot of things personally for me took
a lot of figuring in my own past.

A lot of things seem jumbled in this world
And it is crazy, the narrative's so completely
obtuse they seem so to be to just now.

And I wish only I was still young,
as tired as I am.

How I wish I could change
tomorrow,
falling into this ocean
pressed onto the sea
pretending I was nothing
forgetting a face,
in any mirror,
and all the world is green,
Once again.

you could be fooled about a lot of things
if you put up with it.
Like bit coin, but not as racist.

There you go again,
Bit Coin, it's not as racist
as we once were,
you just got to make it rain
to put out the fire.

Everything is wrong,
and nothing is the same

damn it Tom Waits,
I cannot get those words
off the brain

The blues, nah nah,
that was what got my own behind
in my youth
but you know damn well
that shit still sits
everywhere I look

[czarjak]

6. If she's the answer,

it's a really stupid question.

[EYESORE 9001]

7. 'Drapery'? Like this?

[Wonder Why]

9. No! This

[EYESORE 9001]

13. Love Carol Burnett

Now I see that wars could be fought over drapery

[The Revolution]

8. Wasn't it KINDA About STATES' RIGHTS?!?!?!

Just like with abortion, the whole "states' rights" mantra was just something that sounded good. Certainly states in the CSA were not going to be free to leave or abolish slavery within their own borders.

[SoFlaBro]

10. "Chicanery"

[Vinca]

11. Luckovich nails it again.

[Emile]

12. K&R

[Paladin]

14. She's a clueless chickenshit. (nt)