I'm surprised to see you admit it, but yes, that is exactly what happened. They now have the public believing that States didn't have a right to independence, and that they sent invading armies into these states to abolish slavery.
Total nonsense, yet it has been made pervasive by constant repetition from the authorities and their allies.
There you go again Lampster. The hell it was about any idea of Southern independence. It was about the right to base an economic system based on the use of slave labor and it started a war to achieve that end. war , by the way, it had every intention of winning.
What the Nazis did was come up with a theory that some secretive group was responsible for everything that went wrong in the world.
That's a lot like what you've been saying for the past few months ... or years ... or longer.
And I know that you think you're some great intellectual maverick, but people have been spreading theories like yours for over a century.
"Groupthink" isn't anything new, and it's alive and well in places like lewrockwell.com.