Most of us vote to succeed. Sometimes whole regions vote to secede. Sometimes they do not succeed when they secede.choff wrote:What if 90% of the 2 million people in the breakaway provinces who voted to succeed consider themselves ringleaders to their own rebellion?
Probably why there was a blanket amnesty after the War Between the States. Remember, I was born and raised in the Capital of the Confederacy, suh, and my childhood home was a block from Richmond's statue of Lee. So I'm willing to question if it was legal to stop the southern states from withdrawing from the Union. And if certain provinces in the Ukraine felt that desire, who am I to say they were wrong to think that way?
From my perspective in history, the Civil War was about the most stupid thing this nation ever did. We can argue about who started it, and what it was fought over, but the fact that it was fought at all is tragic beyond the ability of most people these days to comprehend. A lot of things should never have happened, starting with the establishment of slavery in the first place, creating a Constitution that legalized it, failing to expolit our phenomenal inventiveness to find mechanical solutions starting circa 1805, passing the Missouri Compromise to kick the can down the road rather than changing course, firing on Fort Sumter, both sides going to war without realizing the consequences ....
Many causes have been proposed for the Civil War. I now boil them down to one: polarization. Failure to be able to conduct reasonable political debate, failure of vision, failure to anticipate consequences, pig-headed adherence to your side's views and absolute rage at the other side's views, with no appreciation at all for what is just and good.
Wanting to secede is very different from killing your neighbors.
We are not alone in history. I am hoping we don't repeat it. You seem eager to.