“Lincoln dated the founding of the nation from the #DeclarationOfIndependence rather than the #Constitution, the document enslavers preferred because of that document’s protection of property.” https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/february-11-2024?r=4hxgy&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
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@paninid Did you really just try to pull a "Hitler likes cake, so cake is evil" on Lincoln.. lol really?
@freemo
I don’t know that *I* tried to pull anything.
The above is a quote from the Heather Richardson post linked.
Your interpretation is a common bad faith way to initiate convos by folks afflicted with #ConstitutionalDerangementSyndrome 🤷🏻♂️
Fair, you posting the quote may have been simply to point out the stupidity of it rather than support for it
You seem to have missed the point. I am not disagreesing with the assertion that, like many people, he considered the founding of the USA as the start of the war, not the end, and the documents attached to each.
What I am pointing out as absurd is that this fact that it's associated with enslavers in some indirect way.
@freemo I agree that if enslavers really preferred the Constitution because of that document’s protection of property, many over-monetized reactionary asset owners today would prefer to #SaveTheRepublic today, rather than end the America experiment, like they tried to do in the lead up to secession.
@freemo
I agree it would be stupid if the interpretation for Lincoln’s math calculation resulted in a “loss” to anyone.
There’s no loser in the explanation and context.
Do you have an alternate hypothesis for “four score and seven years ago” as an artifact of timespan in #American rhetoric?