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@sun @bajax @RustyCrab @lolitechengineer @scathach

The original principles of the Civil War were that those in the North opposed the African ideology of slavery while the Southern elites were addicted to the means by which they oppressed poor Whites.

It was only when the North had the moral upper hand, when it came to foreign relations of the Europeans, that they openly denounce the Confederacy’s addiction to African norms and crushed the rich elite’s, due in no small part to the poor White Southerner’s help.

The reality is that chattel slavery was alien to our culture and those elite who benefited by it were an alien-influenced cancer that had to be culled.

And it was culled.

@sun @bajax @RustyCrab @lolitechengineer @scathach

>Some are collective rights and some are individual

Not properly understood. The Bill of Rights was declarative and restrictive on the government; the 14th, just applied that on the states.

The worst SCOTUS rulings involved government power, and not strictly speaking, the Bill of Rights.

The three worst, IMHO:

United States v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936)

Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942)

South Dakota v. Dole, 483 U.S. 203 (1987)

Reverse those decisions, and the centralized rot is limited.