For those of you interested in the real cause of the US Civil War, not the chronie capitalist version, watch this.
TLDW- Jeffersonian Democracy ended after the Civil War, which was the independent self-determination of the citizenry replaced by a forced dependency of debt attached to Federal banks with the puppet masters at the top. It was a power grab by capitalists to centralize the United States into a never ending debt which they could regulate through bureaucracies, taxes and regulations that never existed before. This was a war to destroy direct democracy in the United States and replace it with a strong centralized government which would have a large purchasing power through debt and credit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_WarIf it isn't blatantly obvious already, you know that the modern United States is ran by a corrupt conglomeration of rich bankers, crooked politicians and financial institutions who are at the helm of the ship protected by a labyrinth of Federal laws and regulations instituted by the most powerful centralized government and military on Earth. This is exactly why the Southern States wanted Independence and fought tooth and nail for it, they had an entirely different vision of the future of the United States, more akin to Switzerland's canton system and the original founders of the United State's vision. Emancipating slavery was a smokescreen for the financial changes the Centralists wanted to implement after the war.
The Average median income in Mississippi in 1860 was 4000 $ USD
The Average median income in New York in 1860 was 500 $ USD
The ideology of direct democracy and economic prosperity in Southern States was too much for rich bankers and capitalists to handle. The influx of mass European immigrants in the North needed government subsidized factory jobs and their ambitions were constantly checked in the Congress and Senate by Southerners who did not share their belief in centralism. Direct democracy was an impossible obstacle for their goal of a booming industry powered by cheap immigrant labor that they wanted to fund through Federal bank loans. After several financial scares brought upon by their own greed and impudence they needed to get rid of them once and for all and schemed to do so, inciting and antagonizing the South into secession.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy#SwitzerlandTo this date Switzerland is the only country in the world that enjoys the level of direct democratic freedom that the United States enjoyed prior to war's end in 1865. All other nations eventually folded to strong centralized governments and centralized banking.
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