Ted Nugent is Right: The South Should Have Won

And here we go back to the myth the Civil War was fought to free the slaves. History ignores how the Northern states were pushing the Southern states into a state of unfair taxation in order to rebuild northern industry. You see, the North was depending on slave labor in these taxes.

Of course we don't like teach things like Lincoln's Inaugural Address contained language that supported a Constitutional amendment to make slavery permanent, or by Lincoln's own admission in the letters to Horace Greeley the Civil War wasn't ever fought to free a slave but rather to keep the union together.

So the pages of history removed from the history books to give Lincoln some higher calling in what Bill Clinton liked to partake of, legacy building, keeps us at odds and uncomfortable when people like Ted Nugent speak the truth.

The Nuge is coming under fire again this year for his comments on Justice John Roberts, Obamacare, and the Civil War.

The Daily Caller writes:

Headline-grabbing musician and political activist Ted Nugent is once again causing a stir. In a July 5 column for The Washington Times, Nugent wrote that the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care reform law was a sign that America would have faired better “had the South won the Civil War.”

In the op-ed, titled “Turncoat Roberts,” Nugent blamed Chief Justice John Roberts for squandering the opportunity to “restore judicial, financial and legislative sanity to a government that… is insane and addicted to centralized federal control of our lives.”

The outspoken guitarist said that Roberts’ ”traitor[ous]” vote “didn’t give Fedzilla an even bigger shovel, he gave Fedzilla an earth mover with which to dig bigger financial holes.”

Nugent wrote, “because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt, I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War. Our Founding Fathers’ concept of limited government is dead.”

Absolutely Mr. Nugent is right! Look what took place after the Civil War. We got the 14th Amendment which gave the federal government strong central authority by neutralizing this idea that a state was its own individual country that voluntarily entered the union for economic and defense benefits. It's been downhill since as the states have lost more power, power that could be used today to defeat Obamacare, as the federal government continues to grow.


Now the states are slaves to the central authority having lost any right to be truly represented in Congress thanks to the 17th Amendment. They are conditioned through federal dollars coming in to save states' budgets to just bend over and take the loss of states rights promised by the 10th Amendment. 


The problem here is the Civil War and the direct results to states rights is rarely taught in school because America feels there is more honor in making the war that killed 600,000 Americans the equivalent of a holy war. If you don't believe that consider how the Battle Hymn of the Republic was written for Northern troops going off to kill their Southern brothers--as if they had God's blessing.


The bottom line here is Nugent is right. The Civil War set up officially what Thomas Jefferson and James Madison tried to avoid--central power in Washington. The birth of Fedzilla for me starts when Lincoln sent troops to South Carolina to intimidate the South into a war after secession. It was at that point where states no longer really mattered and it shows. Look at the Constitution since the Civil War.

We have the 14th Amendment which turned the United States from plural into United States singular. We have the 16th Amendment giving the government the incredible power of unapportioned taxation of your income while creating a thug like body to enforce the new federal power known as the IRS. We have the 17th Amendment which took away the right of the states to choose its two Senators in Congress, thus making the relationship between Washington and the states even more distant as Washington grabbed power. Senators now count on the ignorance of the people to get elected where as in the past the state legislatures chose Senators to have a voice in Congress. Look at what has happened as a result. More federal power, more federal spending, and less state sovereignty.

It is ignorance that drives this argument against Nugent. It was the need for power, the North's attitude to discipline the south for leaving the voluntary union that led to this power grab we see today.