The North invaded the Southern states because it wished to impose its will upon them.
Today’s Union government is a direct descsendent of that one. Now, instead of tariffs, it’s income tax, forcing ev’s, trying to disarm the populace, jail and no trial for many, killing people in their Ruby Ridge redoubt, burning people in their Waco compound,persecuting and prosecuting political opponents, mandating toilet flushes and certain light bulbs. The list of wrongs is endless. In other words, it’s infinitely worse than it was in 1861.