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Originally Posted by Phil21
It makes it very difficult to argue "states rights" when in doing so, you are allowed slavery to continue. At the time, the issues were much more complex than what we see them as today.
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Books can and have be written about this so I will condense it into 'sound bites'. Slavery was being phased out long before the Civil War. New slaves were not allowed to be imported into the US long before the Civil War. No first world nation still has slavery - meaning it was going away and not an institution that would have or could have continued. Abraham Lincoln could have bought all of the existing slaves for a price far cheaper than the Civil War... but, again, the Civil War was about much more than slavery.
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Originally Posted by Phil21
I do somewhat wonder what the country would be like if FDR hadn't died when he did, and had a couple decades of steering the country after WWII simply by being involved in the political stage. While I certainly can be made to look at some of his policies in a different light, I still feel he was a true patriot and one of the last presidents who truly cared about the nation and it's people above all else.
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It is my opinion that FDR was one of the worst presidents this country ever had. His actions lengthened the depression... His actions, in regards to social programs, will bankrupt this country. His actions took a self reliant nation and forced its citizens to rely/depend on the Federal Govt... this is and was the goal. All massive changes happen during periods of great pain... as it is easier to force an agenda when people are suffering. He was one of our first Socialist leaders and his rot on our country will be felt for generations to come.
Additionally, no "true patriot" would confiscate the gold from the citizens of the US and make its ownership illegal.
Lastly, the Depression can be laid at the feet of Woodrow Wilson and the Federal Reserve act of 1913. That is why he is on my list as they are all intertwined. One action caused another and the cascading effect continues to this day.