Comments by "King Orange" (@kingorange7739) on "The American Civil War - OverSimplified (Part 2)" video.

  1. The Republicans were different back then compared to now, same goes for the Dems.
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  2. Hanging all the leaders would of Martyred the CSA cause, they wanted the south to be reintegrated as smoothly as possible, not see how much it could punish it. Doing insane harsh punishments would of made a second rebellion inevitable
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  3. Your joking right? 😂
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  4.  @joshuawillis602  He made a critique. I doubt that is something worth your kind of reaction.
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  5.  @joshuawillis602  The North weren't Liberals bud.
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  6.  @joshuawillis602  No they really were not. But for the sake of argument, I'll indulge you. Define liberal.
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  7.  @joshuawillis602  “definition liberal: Adjective 1. Willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one’s own; open to new ideas Adjective 2. Relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise. Noun 1. A supporter of policies that are socially progressive and promote social welfare.” - You are aware those two definitions contradict one another. So which are you going with? “The north were liberals because they industrialized and progressed themselves as well as give civil liberties to black people.” - Industrialization does not equal liberalism bud, what kind of logic is that? By that logic, the Nazis were liberal for their massive increase in industry. Also many northerners were opposed to giving Blacks equal rights. You tend to confuse that being anti slavery =/= pro equal rights and that was a major contention Lincoln himself had to face. Not even Lincoln was fully in support of equal rights to Blacks at least at first, with his initial reason for wanting to free them was to ship them back to Africa and establish a US colony there since he believed integration between the races was impossible. “The south were conservatives the exact opposite” - Firstly conservatism is not the opposite of liberalism. Authoritarianism is. The concepts of liberalism and conservatism are not mutually exclusive. Even Lincoln himself has admitted that he and the Republicans are still founded in conservative roots. "The chief and real purpose of the Republican Party is eminently conservative. It proposes nothing save and except to restore this government to its original tone in regard to this element of slavery, and there to maintain it, looking for no further change ... than that which the original framers of the government themselves expected and looked forward to." The key difference was the North and South had different values in what was being conserved. Ironically the south viewed themselves as more liberal given that they (At least in theory) believed to be fighting for a more limited government, promoting more power to the states than federal government with greater individual liberties towards its citizens and less economic regulation. “and were ignorant people stuck in the past and using human beings as property.” - True, and you won’t see me argue with that. But the North also had past values being clinged to. Primarily related to the US Constitution. It was a different breed of conservative values that clashed, as well as different breeds of liberalism and progressivism. Where you see a war of Northern Liberalism vs Southern Conservatism, I see a fundamental competition of American Nationhood within politics, economics, and social values. And those concepts were rooted on both sides based on what was willing to be preserved vs what was willing to be sacrificed.
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