"1861: You Are the U.S. President" Topic
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Cosmic Reset | 01 May 2016 6:46 a.m. PST |
Complex question with too simplistic a selection of answers. Had I been raised prior to the Civil War, rather than now, I suspect that my values, interpretation of the constitution, and perspective of the role of the federal government vs. state's rights might be somewhat different. Additionally, am I the president from South Carolina, or the one from New York? Again, my view and actions might be different. If it was me as I am now, I suspect that I would have tried to follow a different path that would have avoided shots on Fort Sumter, while getting Sheridan, Sherman and Grant into position before the inevitable war started. In the end, I would have been assassinated much earlier, as issues/agenda like radical changes in child welfare, focused advance of education, development of medicine, cooperation with native Americans, equality for woman/native Americans/Africans/all other minorities, and the elimination of slavery wouldn't have made me very popular. |
ochoin | 01 May 2016 7:33 a.m. PST |
issues/agenda like radical changes in child welfare, focused advance of education, development of medicine, cooperation with native Americans, equality for woman/native Americans/Africans/all other minorities, and the elimination of slavery wouldn't have made me very popular. You got my vote. |
Frederick | 01 May 2016 11:29 a.m. PST |
Agreed! The US government had been pandering to the slave-owning stats for way too long – it was time that enough was enough |
Who asked this joker | 01 May 2016 12:36 p.m. PST |
Easy answer. You would be very hard pressed to do better than Lincoln. Fight it out. That is what he did. It turned out well…eventually. |
piper909 | 01 May 2016 3:56 p.m. PST |
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Gunfreak | 02 May 2016 12:25 p.m. PST |
Should I? Someone has to do it! Ok here goes: Nuke them from orbit its the only way to be sure! |
Gwydion | 02 May 2016 2:51 p.m. PST |
Crush them utterly! (it is the 19th century after all) |
FatherOfAllLogic | 03 May 2016 6:42 a.m. PST |
Joining the federation is a one-way road….. |
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