THE GREATEST PRESIDENT SINCE LINCOLN

 A few years ago it dawned on me that the modern day Democrat party is basically the same party that started the American Civil War in 1861. At that time Lincoln was their Donald Trump. Democrats had LDS, or Lincoln Derangement Syndrome. No president was more hated in his lifetime than Abraham Lincoln. That is until Donald Trump came along. For the Democrats it is always a power thing. All they care about is gaining power and holding on to it. In Lincoln's day blacks were their target of oppression. Today, the straight white male, or anyone who declares themselves to be a Conservative regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation is their target if they side with the Conservative movement. Divide and conquer has always been the Democrats strategy. The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass stated that the Democrat master placed a wedge between the black slave and poor whites. The poor white had more in common with the slave than he did with the master. Douglas said "they divided both to conquer each". America is divided along ideological lines today rather than sectional lines. I have more in common with my working class Democrat family members who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome than they do with the wealthy oligarchs that lead their political party. If I asked them most would say that they are against abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, or that they don't believe in the sexual mutilation of children, the sexual grooming of children, or homosexual marriage. These people are patriotic, go to church, and believe in the nuclear family. Because of family tradition, belonging to a union, and anti Trump propaganda they will continue to defend the indefensible, however.

Lincoln's stated goal on slavery was very clear. He would uphold the Constitution and leave slavery alone where it already existed. He did not, however; want slavery to spread into the new territories west of the Mississippi River. This was the platform of the new Republican party. Their main goal was to stop the spread of slavery into the territories and to stop the spread of polygamy which they considered another form of slavery. Lincoln had a solid Constitutional argument on this point. One of the last acts of The Articles of Confederation congress in 1787 was to outlaw slavery in the new Northwest territory that would eventually comprise the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. This lends credence to the argument that the Founders did not consider slavery to be a permanent institution. In Lincoln's mind Congress had the right to outlaw slavery in the new territories acquired by the Mexican War just as the legislature had done in the Northwest territory.

The Southern Democrats on the other hand felt that they had the right to spread slavery into the territories. The Missouri Compromise passed by Congress in 1820 had given the South that right. It established the 36' 30' parallel north latitude dividing the territory acquired by the Louisiana Purchase. Anything above that line would be a free state and anything below would be a slave state. A crisis had been caused by the fact that the new territory of Maine applied for admission as a free state. If Maine was allowed to come into the Union this would give the free states more power in Congress, upsetting the balance of power between slave and free. A compromise was reached which came to be known as the Missouri Compromise. Missouri would come into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

The Mexican War, which was fought from 1846 to 1848 would upset this apple cart. The American Southwest territory along with the future states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming would be ceded to the United States for 15 million dollars by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican War. Before President James K. Polk ended his term he was able to negotiate a treaty with England which ceded what was known as the Oregon territory to the United States. This territory makes up the modern day states of Oregon and Washington. The Democrat South was looking hungrily at all this new territory. If they could move slavery into the new territories below the 36'30' line it could mean more wealth for Democrat oligarchs who owned slaves and more power in Congress. The three-fifths rule in our Constitution has always been misunderstood. Many people look at it as degrading black people. Counting someone as three-fifths of a person is racist in their mind. That is how I originally interpreted it. Actually it was compromise by the abolitionists meant to diminish the power of the slave states. If they could count slaves as a whole person that would make the slave states even more powerful. Yet if the Democrats could move slavery into the territories and be able to count their slaves as three-fifths even this would give them more power in Congress. Fast forward to today. The illegal aliens, who are the Democrats modern day slave labor, are being counted in the census which gives them greater congressional representation. Because of declining birth rates due to abortion and feminist indoctrination they push for the  illegal vote to help keep them in power.

Fast forward to the present day. The modern day Democrat party is trying to do the same thing with illegal immigration. Their modern day oligarchs make billions from the slave labor of illegals. The Democrats are counting illegals in the census to boost their representation in Congress. They also are using them to vote wherever they can get away with it and pushing for amnesty so they can legally vote thereby increasing Democrat power not only in Congress but in electing Democrat presidents. Their ultimate goal is to create a one party state similar to what they have created in the blue states like California and Oregon. I like to call the blue states the slave states and the red states the free states. The blue states have a lot in common with the former slave states. Democrat rule has created poverty, violence, homelessness, and a backward educational system much like in the Democrat South. For many years the South was known as the Solid South because it was solidly Democrat. A black man could not hope to get a fair trial in the Democrat legal system of the South until the late 1960's and 70's. A republican or a Conservative cannot hope to get a fair trial in Washington D.C. or any blue state today. It was against the law to educate a slave and poor whites were lucky if they got any education at all in the antebellum South. When the Frenchman Alexi de Toqueville wrote his book Democracy In America in the 1830's he did not include the Democrat South because it was so oppressive and backward. It wasn't a democracy.

In 1854 the Democrat Congress tried to appease the Southern Democrats by passing the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This Act was the brainchild of Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas from Illinois. It allowed each new state coming into the Union to have a voter referendum on whether or not they wanted slavery or not. This caused a civil war in Kansas between free state and slave state advocates. Kansas became known as "Bloody Kansas". Keep in mind that Northern Democrats were okay with slavery. Northern Democrats were simply at odds with Southern Democrats on how best to maintain the institution of slavery. Southern Democrats wanted to return to the Missouri Compromise 36 30 line and Northern Democrats wanted "Popular Sovereignty" as the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was called. This argument would split the Democrat party into a Northern and Southern wing in 1860 enabling Lincoln to win the presidency. The Kansas-Nebraska Act angered Lincoln to the point that he became more politically active. As I said previously Lincoln was against the spread of slavery into the territories but he knew that constitutionally he could not end slavery without a constitutional amendment in the states where it already existed. This fact didn't matter to the Democrats. Like Trump they twisted his words and weren't even willing to give him a chance. Upon Lincoln's election South Carolina seceded from the Union and six deep South Democrat states soon followed. When Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion four more Democrat states joined the Confederacy bringing the total of seceded states to eleven.

The Democrats lied and said that the war was about states rights. My question would be, what rights? Nobody was calling for the suspension of the Bill of Rights. Lincoln did suspend the right of habeus corpus, which is still debated by historians today, but he didn't do that until after the war started. The concept of states rights is an important right guaranteed to the states by the Constitution but Lincoln was not trying to restrict the rights of the states in any way. Democrats then and now only invoke the Constitution when it serves their purposes. Otherwise they usually ignore it. States like South Carolina during the Nullification crisis of 1831 and California and New York on illegal immigration today try to nullify Federal law. In 1831 the state of South Carolina was refusing to pay a Federal tariff and California and New York are nullifying Federal immigration laws by declaring themselves sanctuary states and cities. In the 1960's Southern Democrats resisted Federal law after the Brown Vs. Board of Education ruling in 1954 ordering the desegregation of public schools. The Democrats also resisted when the Supreme Court ruled that interstate transportation facilities were to be integrated in the early 1960's. President Eisenhower had to send in troops to desegregate Little Rock Central high School in 1957 and President Kennedy had to Federalize National Guard troops to protect the Freedom Riders in 1961. In 1831 President Andrew Jackson threatened military intervention if South Carolina didn't pay the tariff. President Trump is well within his constitutional rights to send National Guard troops into Los Angeles to protect ICE agents and I would love to see him send troops into every sanctuary city and state. Democrat leaders are obstructing Federal law and should be arrested, or at the very least troops should be sent in to enforce Federal law.

 As Steve Bannon has said today's Democrat party is the Neo Confederate party. The Democrats started the American Civil War and they would like to start another one. Thanks to the Democrat party we are just as divided as we were back then. As in the Civil War wealthy oligarchs were trying to maintain political power while trying to protect their slave labor. The refrain then was if slavery is abolished whose going to pick our cotton? Wealthy oligarchs still control the Democrat party and the refrain today is if we lose illegal immigrants whose going to pick our vegetables and clean our toilets? One thing that was driving the abolition movement in the north was that free labor could not compete against slave labor. American workers today can't compete against slave wages being paid to illegals. Modern Democrat oligarchs and their sycophants say that illegals are only doing the work that Americans won't do. American's were doing that work long before the illegals arrived but they were being paid at a higher livable rate. Lincoln believed that the black man should be able to eat the corn that he produced with his own hands and should also be able to sell his corn in the free market.

Trump wants the American worker to make a livable wage that is not being driven down by the slave wages being paid to illegals. Wealthy oligarch slaveowners produced an antebellum society that had two classes, the rich and the poor. Much is taught about the plight of the slave but not enough is written about the plight of the poor whites in the antebellum South. Lincoln set back this oligarchy many years by winning the war and freeing their slaves. General Grant said it best in his memoirs. Slaveowners were the greatest abolitionists in the world. When they started the war they guaranteed the abolition of slavery. Until Donald Trump came along we were well on our way to becoming a globalist oligarchy and the ultimate result would be two classes of people. The rich and the poor. The Democrats tried to kill Lincoln throughout the Civil War and finally succeeded as the war was coming to an end. They have tried to kill Trump twice and were nearly successful. By the grace of God Trump will have better luck than Lincoln did. History can teach us a lot if are willing to learn.