This One’s for Glenn Beck

Abraham Lincoln was the best thing to ever happen to America, and the worst thing.

Because the North won the Civil War, slavery came to an end. Granted, it was not the issue going into the war but perhaps it needed to be. Slavery is without a doubt the most cruel and dehumanizing institution ever devised by corrupt humanity. Many would see prison or even death as preferable. Thank God that slavery ended when the North won the war.

Having said that, though, we must also consider this: Because the Union (Federalists) won the war, our nation ceased to exist. All at once, the federal (central) government broke free of the restraints our founders so carefully crafted. At that point in history, the Fed could tell the states what they could do and not do with regard to everything and everyone, and it could tell individuals what they could and could not do with their own property which as we now see stretches to cover our own bodies and (politically incorrect) minds. (can you say “hate crime?”) (Can you say “McCain-Finegold?”)

If the states object at any point on any level, the federal government, thanks to winning the war, can enforce their decisions if necessary by force. Individual citizens have even less hope than the states now that they have the cowed states enforcing the federal mandates. Object? Ha! What are you going to do about it? Yeah? You and what Confederate army?

The idea that we need a return to the Constitution is a lovely, impossible ideal. We haven’t been a constitutional nation since reconstruction. Some have suggested that we need a second American Revolution as alluded to in the name “Tea Parties.” I think what we may need is a second Civil War, one where slavery is no longer an issue. It is the states who need to put the federal government back into the very small and limited place where it belongs, assuming the genie can be put back into the bottle. Then the citizens of the various states need to rise up and tell their state governments “Don’t tread on me.”

Of course, if you need some moral motivation, how about all of the hard working taxpayers who have become little more than slaves to the entitlement class. We ought to end slavery, don’t you think?


-Michael
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