>>3782593 (OP)In a weird way it goes back to the constitution, The founding fathers had slavery, but disliked it in some ways, nobody really promoted it it just was, and was maintained because nobody, out of respect for their neighbors at the time, would insist on them getting rid of slaves, and many saw themselves as benevolent masters anyway…
This just being the nature of the issue, with millions of moral nuances and how media always exaggerates even the best to look like the worst, really stirs americans in some way, but the most principled stuck to the principles of the constitution and states rights?
Perhaps what he was thinking was going to be a quick fix and a right one, ended up just being one event in a long chain of historical events that although can be traced, do not make everyone happy at every point in time…
And angry beasts lash out, while angry men stand firm and follow their principles…