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kpete

(72,013 posts) Mon May 1, 2017, 10:46 AM May 2017

Rep Barbara Lee: Answers Trump's Question about WHY we had a Civil War

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Rep Barbara Lee: Answers Trump's Question about WHY we had a Civil War (Original Post) kpete May 2017 OP

Another perspective, often forgotten, is the aftermath of the Mexican-American War Xipe Totec May 2017 #1

Good observations roscoeroscoe May 2017 #2

Oh, what does Rep. Lee know about it? gratuitous May 2017 #3

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

1. Another perspective, often forgotten, is the aftermath of the Mexican-American War

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon May 1, 2017, 11:03 AM

May 2017

A civil war fought to divide between slave states and free states the spoils of the Mexican American war.

Both sides fought with generals trained in that war, making it the bloodiest war even fought on American soil.

If ever there was something to be called Montezuma's revenge, this was it.

roscoeroscoe

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2. Good observations

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #1)

Mon May 1, 2017, 12:03 PM

May 2017

You are right - the slave states wanted to expand

gratuitous

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3. Oh, what does Rep. Lee know about it?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon May 1, 2017, 01:03 PM

May 2017

President Trump is saying that a deal could have totally been worked out. If some folks had just given a little, we wouldn't have forced all those slaveholders to go to war. What's the big deal about freedom, anyway? Couldn't all those slaves have just been more patient, and continued to work for nothing, get tortured and raped and stuff? Why couldn't they work something out?

DAMN, but this fuckhead is ignorant. And reading the comments to the story online (never read the comments), his asshole defenders are in full "get over it, snowflake" mode. I'm not making nice with these people. They're unreachable at this time.

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