[quote=spdrun]I’m bringing rotten tomatoes. Not because I expect the movie to be bad, but because “Honest Abe” was one of the worst things to happen to the US.
We should have let the South and Bible Belt go straight to Hell in 1861 — withdrawn all troops, relinquished all forts, and left them to f**k themselves. Slavery would have ended naturally due to mechanization, and this country would be much less politically divided right now.[/quote]
And the slaves naturally should wait, until mechanization freed them? Freed them to what?