Why
did the US Civil War happen? Simple: the power to make money; aka the
right for the rich to stay rich despite the cost to humanity.
The
institution of slavery created centuries of wealth for many of the
world's governments. The practice is Biblical. But it becomes
increasingly difficult to treat people as animals when they are
increasing seen as human. The US was not the first nor the last to
abolish this source of unethical labor. And like the Exodus, it came
at a great cost to the nation resisting change. But unlike the
ancient tale, the force facing the American Pharaoh named Jefferson
Davis was a well-regulated army of soldiers supported by a diverse
middle-class, not a mass of ragtag slaves lead by a psychic magician
across the parted river into the empty desert under a watchful eye.
The
American Civil War began over the establishment of California – a
state free from slavery. The South felt boxed in. Without direct
access to the Pacific, maximizing profits from their ill-gotten gains
became untenable. With this irreplaceable export route blocked, they
formed a new country and went to war for the right to exist; they had
to protect the old-fashion way. Over the preceding decades of
increasing restrictions to their business model and in light of the
contemporary trend of world governments abandoning the practice
altogether, the South saw the writing on the wall and like the
Luddites raged against the machine of progress.
The
Confederate States of America was the attempt to create a foreign
country within US boarders based on the institution of slavery. The
Confederate Battle Flag symbolizes a foreign country's aggression
upon this soil. What other enemy is favored with such an honor? Such
logic requires zombie-like cognitive dissidence. How much longer will
the enemy's flag fly over US capitals?
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