That’s why I’ve been saying every time on FR we cannot co-exist with liberals. It just cannot be. It’s akin to living with a commie and you’re a capitalist entrepreneur. 2 ideologies at the very ends of the spectrum are not meant to be together.
Proof of your assertion is that NO democrats are criticizing obamba even though he is now a lame duck. The silence is deafening. The only peeps of dissent out of dimwits were a few ones who were trying to win in the midterms. The fact that Obama has almost single-handedly neutered the entire dim party, and they have no problem with it, demonstrates that they are ideological fanatics before anything.
More importantly (in the larger picture), liberals can’t have a system where the socialist hellholes suffer while the most “free” states (in terms of taxation, regulation, and individual liberties) prosper. Federal programs (including the newest: ObamaCare) re-distribute wealth to an extent, but not enough to stop the flight of capital from “liberal” states. Immigration is one means (akin to the Quartering Act preceding the American Revolution) by which the central government can allot dependents to prospering states, along with Section 8 housing for native-born “takers”.
Slavery is presented as the cause of the Civil War because the truth is much uglier (and still relevant today); an overbearing centralized federal government dominating the state governments that had originally held the power during and following the American Revolution.