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Meet Robert Stacy McCain, Neo-Confederate Wacko Extraordinaire

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Gus10/19/2009 6:35:58 pm PDT

RS McCain gets in touch with his inner Zinn:

Abraham Lincoln? He and his political allies centralized political power in Washington, D.C., and used that power to pass high tariffs which made possible the era of “Robber Barons.” The South’s opposition to such tariffs had been one of the prime causes — and some would say THE prime cause — of the war. Having created a continental empire, foreign imperialism was the next logical step: Cuba, the Philippines, Panama and, yes, even Vietnam were the ultimate victims of Lincolnian doctrine. And the continued expansion of the power of the central government to interfere in the ordinary affairs of its citizens is but the expected consequence of Lincoln’s denial of the South’s independence.