Tuesday, September 14, 2010

We The People

1 comment:

Diogenes said...

What a load of jingoistic crap.

"That unfinished cause for which our soldiers willingly go to battle and for which so many have given their lives is a free United States of America."

Only an uneducated moron believes the old wives' tale that the Civil War was fought to end slavery. That war was never initiated to give freedom to slaves. Ironically, that war was started, arguably, to STOP liberty. The southern states who seceded, claiming "states' rights" were not allowed to secede by Lincoln. The Civil War was fought to eliminate Southern states' freedom of choice and restore the Union.

But that's what happens when ignorant fools learn how to create YouTube videos: they fracture American history and say any damn fool thing that pops into their brain. Add a catchy patriotic soundtrack, and you get a bunch of Teabaggers all teary-eyed...over what is, basically, a lie.

But, damn... isn't the Battle Hymn of the Republic a stirring song? It can almost make the most moronic ideas sound noble.