Biden Warns 'Brave Right-Wing' Americans—'If You Want to
Fight Against the Country, You Need an F-15'
I thought Brandon promised to unite Americans, instead he spews out threats against 50% of our nation, in MAGA country!
Brandon, please read the following U.S. history.
March 4, 1861: Inauguration Day. Abraham Lincoln, the
President-elect, takes the oath of office to become the 16th President of the
United States. It was an uncertain time. The country was torn over the issue of
slavery. For years, a tenuous arrangement had been maintained between free and
slaveholding states, but now many Americans—on both sides—seemed unwilling to
compromise. The Democratic Party had fractured over the issue. Two Democrats
and a former Whig, each with differing views, vied to become president in 1860.
This left the Republican Party, which wanted to limit slavery, with an
opportunity for an electoral victory.
Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate, was elected by a minority of
eligible voters, winning mainly Northern and Western states—enough for
an electoral majority—but receiving little or no support from the slaveholding
South. Since Lincoln's election in November 1860, seven Southern states had seceded from the
Union, and many Americans feared the other eight slave states would follow.
Americans anxiously waited to hear from their new president.
In his inaugural address, Lincoln tried to allay the fears and apprehensions of those who perceived him as a radical and those who sought to break the bonds of the Union. More immediately, his address responded to the crisis at hand. Lincoln, a practiced circuit lawyer, laid out his case to dismantle the theory of secession. He believed that the Constitution provided clear options to change government through scheduled elections and amendments.
Lincoln considered the more violent option of revolution as a right held by the people, but only if other means of change did not exist. Secession, Lincoln argued, was not a possibility granted by the founders of the nation or the Constitution. Logically, it would only lead to ever-smaller seceding groups. And governing sovereignty devolved from the Union—not the states, (watchman comment (wc), I disagree. The union is compact agreed upon by individual states, commonly called “states rights” After all each sovereign state voted on the constitution, and was only approved when guarantees were made to the small states.) as secessionists argued. Finally, if the Constitution was a compact between sovereign states, then all parties would have to agree to unmake it. (wc again I disagree with Lincoln.) Clearly, President Lincoln did not. (wc, I believe one of our options currently is succession. I can visualize parts of the South and West seceding.)
Lincoln did not want conflict. His administration
had yet to govern, and even so, he believed that as president he would have "little power for
mischief," as he would be constrained by the checks and balances framed in
the Constitution. Lincoln implored all his countrymen to stop and think before
taking rash steps. But if conflict came, he would be bound by his
presidential oath to “preserve, protect, and defend” the government (wc, what??? I would say the
constitution, not the frickin government.).Below is Lincoln's inaugural speech.
Lincoln concluded his case with the most famous passages in the speech—a call to remember the bonds that unify the country, and his vision of hope:
Lincoln had hoped that time and thoughtful
deliberation would resolve this issue—and in a way it did. The tragedies of war
empowered Lincoln to reconsider his views. His views on slavery and freedom
evolved. No longer bound, Lincoln moved toward emancipation, toward freeing enslaved Americans, and toward his "better angels."
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