Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Corporate Shill Smears Canadian Truckers – Gets Owned By Co-Host" video.

  1. This is the USA. You don't tear down a statue of Jefferson Davis. You put up a same-scale statue of Frederick Douglas, who towered over Davis, right next to the Davis statue. We don't hide from our history. We expand on it, learn more about it, show more about it. Tearing down statues and banning/burning books is what Nazis and violent communists do. In my opinion, slavery was on its way out, regardless. But we found the most bloody and upper-class-enriching way of going about ending it. There wouldn't have been a war at all if the Northern factory owners weren't pissed off that the cotton from down South was being sold to the UK, which offered better prices for cotton and made better finished products than USA factories. And if the North really meant well, why didn't the former slaves all get their 40 acres and a mule? Instead, they did a federal "reconstruction program" wherein carpetbaggers from the North bought up prime real estate in the South for 10 cents on the dollar. And did the plight of African-Americans really improve that much or did they just paint lipstick on a pig, making field hands into sharecroppers, like serfs of old, which is pretty much the same as slavery, only the land owner just kicks you off your land if he doesn't like you or you piss him off, leaving you with less security and scant little freedom, as a practical matter. And who fought and died in the Civil War? Poor people from North and South, once again settling beefs between rich mofos on both sides of the conflict. MOST people in the South neither owned slaves nor looked down on African-descended Americans as lesser than themselves. I think they should've let a few Southern states go ahead and secede. They would've come around in less than a generation, as all the states around them prospered and stopped respecting ANY of their illegal property rights to other human beings. The Underground Railroad would've become an interstate highway to freedom, and nothing the South could've done about it. Instead, 99% of those who fought and died never owned slaves. 90% of the soldiers from the South weren't defending slavery, but were defending their state's sovereignty against Northerners who were more racist than they were! I'd rather see a model of the USA that's open to other semi-sovereign states join, if they want, and enjoy our protection as long as they respect the rights of THEIR citizens. And let them secede if it isn't working out for them. But we stick with the 50 states, insist they all remain, and don't even talk about other countries/states joining us for mutual protection. We should never be in wars of defense or aggression on behalf of other sovereign nations. We should only defend our country, and let other countries join our union if they wish. But never hold a state against its will. The primacy of the federal government is too great. It should just do the basics and let the states run their own affairs, as long as they follow the U.S. Constitution. There's your Med-4-All Jimmy. Let individual states adopt it and make it work for THEM, if they can make it work. Imposing it from the top down will be a disaster. North Dakota and New York State are like two different universes. Hell, upstate New York and New York City are like two different universes. One rule set for all? Needs to be very basic rule set, with wide discretion for each individual member state how they want to run things. If your Med-4-All is so great, then the states will learn how to do it from each other. If it's not, we're way more likely to find a better model with 50 simultaneous experiments underway.
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