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MandoCommander In reply to Merry-Cavalier [2015-09-03 06:06:15 +0000 UTC]

These aren't the Confederate traitors. These are the Union patriots, soldiers of freedom and justice.

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OddGarfield In reply to MandoCommander [2015-10-25 01:38:15 +0000 UTC]

You mean more men following orders for the corrupt Union which is still divided politically? 

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MandoCommander In reply to OddGarfield [2015-11-02 00:47:09 +0000 UTC]

The Confederacy was founded on beliefs of racial supremacy and political corruption, a regime of authoritarian extremists. America may be a flawed democracy, but it is no where near that level of depravity.

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OddGarfield In reply to MandoCommander [2015-11-02 02:16:55 +0000 UTC]

The Confederacy was founded to free the states that were being economically deprived by the federal government that they were under. Don't you know the history of the era? ... the Confederate States were no where near the qualifications of a regime since it had a Constitution and a Congress almost identical to the United States government, without political parties of course. I do not see in any way how the Confederate States were authoritarians since they adopted both the US Constitution and laws of the United States to form a more perfect Union, hens the term "Confederacy".

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MandoCommander In reply to OddGarfield [2015-11-03 03:46:27 +0000 UTC]

In every declaration of secession issued by the Confederate states they outlined being deprived of their slaves as the primary reason for rebellion. They weren't being economically squeezed by the federal government, they were ruining themselves by their inability to cope with the changes of time. I'm afraid you are reciting the version of history taught in the Deep South today, and it's not the real version. Simply having a Constitution and Congress does not mean a government is not authoritarian and oppressive. The Russian Federation today has a similar structure and they are among the most authoritarian regimes in the world. The Confederacy defied laws that ended slavery, which is itself an authoritarian practice. The Confederacy used their own adapted version of the U.S. Constitution rather than the real one, one that had edits and amendments to suit right-wing extremist ideology, entering territory that would later be coined as Fascism. It legalized acts of immorality against others in defense of unequal rights for deferent groups of people in society. Such oppressive beliefs and prejudice being used for a foundation of government leaves no doubt the Confederacy was far worse than the U.S. government has ever been. Washington himself believed in the authority of the federal government and that it should always keep the states from becoming too radical.

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