Ferris said:

There's no way I could possibly lose this argument, since the thread is 100% opinion.

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I could say Palin is the best politician ever because I think she's hot, and there's nothing you could do about it mwahahahha

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I just think that in a more responsible historical alternate timeline somewhere, there was a Lincoln that championed states rights to calm tempers, but still got an amendment passed to make slavery illegal, or at least paved the way for such a movement.

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Hell, the civil war set us back as a country for 35-100 years.

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The Civil War set America back 100 years?  Now I know why I don't have a flying car yet.    The south was left out of the industrial revolution to such an extent that their only crop (excepting tobacco) was shipped hundreds of miles to the north or across an ocean to be processed.  The continuation of the slave-based economy would have brought further ruin to a region of America already hopelessly behind in a rapidly changing world.  Agrarian aristocracy was an anchor on developing America, and jettisoning it, while painful, was the best thing that could have happened to this country.

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There's no way I could possibly lose this argument, since the thread is 100% opinion.

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You lost when you resorted to hypotheticals instead of actual history.