2031

They fought a whole war doing it. Sooooo

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2032

Oh…lemme guess…now…it’s different…amirite? :sunglasses: :tumbler_glass:

In all seriousness…politics no longer has a bearing on flying that flag. I’d more associate it with a southern male, advertising his southern heritage…like the Dukes of Hazard were doing when it was painted on the roof of their Charger.

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2033

Thats why they wave it a lot now right…because of heritage?

Oh wait…no its republicans who tend to wave it. Thats weird…

2034

If democrats waved it, why do republicans tend to wave it now?

2035

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2036

Lincoln died before he could do the right thing.

Following the war and following a period of “probation” (which is basically what reconstruction was supposed to be, but they screwed it all up by not stamping out confederate nationalism) the powers the federal government assumed during the war should have been divested and returned to the states. Not just the southern states. All of the states.

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2037

Some are racists I’m sure. But as a whole it’s much more a states rights symbol than a racial one. <— to the Right.

I fully get that to the overly sensitive left that thinks everything is about race, that’s what it means to them.

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2038

13th amendment?

2039

That could have worked.

I would have just pulled out of the south till they completely collapsed.

2040

That was a necessity. As was the 14th and 15th amendments.

They were also passed by constitutional means.

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2041

Smyrna said that the Confederate flag is a Democrat thing…

Strange that it should primarily be republicans that wave it now.

2042

That was Lincoln pushing for an amendment to end slavery…forever…via a Constuitutional amendment. That was Lincoln ending the idea that the states could secede while claiming slavery was a states rights issue.

2043

Weird that when it was about Racism it was a democrat thing, and when it was about states rights it’s a Republican thing.

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2044

So…waving the flag back then was bad but is good now?

2045

And that was the proper way to do it.

That isn’t one of the powers the federal government assumed during the war.

The power to unilaterally declare a suspension of habeas corpus absent congress and the state legislatures input is the one that bothers me the most. It set a precedent.

2046

I don’t find it “good” now because of the double meaning and the fact that the left doesn’t have two brain cells capable of differentiating the two.

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2047

Keep spouting lib nonsense, curl up in it…chew it like a cud…and ignore reality. :sunglasses: :tumbler_glass:

2048

There was no way to do it before the war because southern states blocked any and all legilslation to do with slavery for decades.

2049

Pretty hard to differentiate the Confederate battle flag from the cause of upholding slavery.

2050

…and here it is, on display…a lib…chewing on their cud of stupidity. :sunglasses: :tumbler_glass: