Added, check out my profile as well, I think 2 have gone up since this.

On whether power should be primarily given on a local level or a wide scale, I would paraphrase renowned economist Milton Friedman: The greatest threat to freedom is concentrated power. The Constitution was created because the founders knew from thousands of years of human history that power concentrated in the hands of a few inevitably led to the disappearance of basic human rights.

The constitution didn't leave this open for debate. It intentionally left all rights that weren't explicitly given to the federal government to the states. That precedent was stripped from the constitution through war, and slavery was just the great moral cause to justify it.

Yeah, they didn't tell you the whole story. The north was just as guilty of being selfish. Slavery was just a circumstantial issue. The central issue was states rights over the federal government. That battle was lost, a new precedent was set, and we've been slipping down that slope ever since.

Makes sense. I knew slavery wasn't the heart of the war and that Lincoln kind of just threw it in there to rally the north. But had no prior knowledge on the initial issues. Though I still can't say i'm in favor of the south. Not really particular on states having their own laws, but much less of an issue than slavery that's for sure. More of a pet peeve coming from moving around a lot as a teen.

On whether power should be primarily given on a local level or a wide scale, I would paraphrase renowned economist Milton Friedman: The greatest threat to freedom is concentrated power. The Constitution was created because the founders knew from thousands of years of human history that power concentrated in the hands of a few inevitably led to the disappearance of basic human rights.

The constitution didn't leave this open for debate. It intentionally left all rights that weren't explicitly given to the federal government to the states. That precedent was stripped from the constitution through war, and slavery was just the great moral cause to justify it.

give it time... you'll see

That's very insightful. Thank you.

>dead racists
implying that's all the confederate flag means

I grew up in the north, believe it or not our history classes varied depending on the personal feelings of the teachers. Now i'm sure the south had many wonderful people at the time in it. But as far as the motivations of the politicians that rebelled to make their own nation, I was taught they were greedy motivations of rich men not wanting to lose free labor. I don't know everything and if you have some wisdom lay it on me. But don't tell me the guy with the confederate flag hat screaming "the south will rise again" knows all about Jefferson Davis. He just watched too much Dukes of Hazzard. It's an outdated symbol that represents a horrible time in our country, and while i see no reason to stop people from using it. I'm not sad to see it go.

Yeah, they didn't tell you the whole story. The north was just as guilty of being selfish. Slavery was just a circumstantial issue. The central issue was states rights over the federal government. That battle was lost, a new precedent was set, and we've been slipping down that slope ever since.

Makes sense. I knew slavery wasn't the heart of the war and that Lincoln kind of just threw it in there to rally the north. But had no prior knowledge on the initial issues. Though I still can't say i'm in favor of the south. Not really particular on states having their own laws, but much less of an issue than slavery that's for sure. More of a pet peeve coming from moving around a lot as a teen.

On whether power should be primarily given on a local level or a wide scale, I would paraphrase renowned economist Milton Friedman: The greatest threat to freedom is concentrated power. The Constitution was created because the founders knew from thousands of years of human history that power concentrated in the hands of a few inevitably led to the disappearance of basic human rights.

The constitution didn't leave this open for debate. It intentionally left all rights that weren't explicitly given to the federal government to the states. That precedent was stripped from the constitution through war, and slavery was just the great moral cause to justify it.

it's just adding to the sinking ship.

How so?

give it time... you'll see

That's very insightful. Thank you.