You and others problems is you keep thinking of the USA as one giant whole, it isn't. It's many different divided parts, 50 of them to be exact. States need to be able to compete against each other, if our competition is internal, our federal government can use proper tariffs or whatever to force other nations to compete against the states in side the USA. It would benefit us all. Lincoln killed the union by making it seem like it can never be disband, by making us think of ourselves as one giant entity, instead of many states which work together for a common good. It's sad. Federalists are fucking miserable.
Yeah man, Lincoln killed the Union so badly that we went on to be the most powerful country the world has ever seen, with a standard of living that is the envy of nearly the entire world. (outside of a few European countries)
DAMN YOU, LINCOLN.
