Abraham Lincoln, despite often being considered one of the best or the best presidents of the US, received less than 40% of the popular vote, the second lowest percentage in US history. Is this proof that democracy is bogus?
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No.
What I find interesting was the the South was preparing for war BEFORE Lincoln was elected. That's why they didn't even run him on the ticker because they had completely given up on the federal government. So Lincoln being a pompous butthole to the South was really just a confirmation that "Oh I guess it's war time."
>the the South was preparing for war BEFORE Lincoln was elected.
>Lincoln being a pompous butthole to the South
frick off
The secretary of war in 1859 was arming federal bases in the South in anticipation of a Civil War, Lincoln was just the straw that broke the camel's back
frick you, Lincoln being a pompous butthole was the hard truth that the south needed to hear. Lincoln was a 6'4" Turbochad who was so butt ugly he joked about it for laughs. He was straight up calling them out for their brazen hypocrisy, and they made him into their great Satan, but that's what makes honest Abe so based, how so many years later he still generates so much SEETHE from inbred, half-Black dixiecucks.
you're mentally ill lol
Abe was a fighter, that's what the electorate voted for: somebody who was going to stand up to the southern swine
what did he fight again? by the time he was assassinated he was but skin and bones from the anxiety
>what did he fight again?
to keep the union together, and he succeeded in two elections
>skin and bones from the anxiety
running a war is hard
as far as I remember Lincoln didn't do any fighting, he just went and watched plays and slept
>the Commander in Chief has nothing to do with war
this is some serious Dixiegay cope
Can you name one thing he actually physically did the entire war?
Appointing generals, choosing and approving strategies. Instituting domestic policies like drafts, censoring critics, and the emancipation proclamation. Overseeing foreign diplomacy. The president has always had immense war time powers and every major military decision ultimately has to go though him. This is like US civics 101.
>censoring critics
Ah yes, creating his own secret police to arrest and deport people he didn't like must have been painstaking work
Holy shit you guys are so predictable, one second Lincoln didn't do anything and deserves no credit for winning the war, then when I point out that he did a lot, you pivot to the Tyrant Lincoln shit. Classic goalpost shift and beautiful backpedaling.
Do you not know what sarcasm is esl?
So you admit you're not addressing any of my arguments and are just making lame jokes?
What are you, a fricking simpleton? He did all of his physical fighting in the prime of his youth, like every human being on the planet. Lincoln is even enshrined in the wrestling hall of fame for being one of the most successful wrestler in his region. And that's actual wrestling, not scripted soap operas for moronic rednecks. By the time he was old he did his fighting in a court room, and didn't stop as he transitioned over to politics, and the less he had to play nice with hicks from the backwoods of Illinois, the larger his platform, the more forward he became about his beliefs
He was known to help the military test weapons right there on the lawn of the White House. The dude was a frontierchad, after all, he knew his way around a rifle
>The dude was a frontierchad
Do you actually know anything about Lincoln besides the elementary school version of him?
Yes, and I've learned the moronic contrarian version that smooth-brained dixiecucks say about his life, and one version is clearly grounded in the historical record, and the other is just a bunch of dixiecuck pigsquealing
I'll take that as a no
Go be moronic somewhere else
Do you like Lincoln quotes? I've got some good ones
The absolute sophistry employed by braindead dixie trash is truly something wonderful to behold
Okay cool, got an argument?
>That's why they didn't even run him on the ticker because they had
He wasn't on the ticket because he lacked the minimum amount of support to qualify. He was probably one of the most regional candidates in history. Some Southern candidates were not listed in Northern states btw.
Interesting
No, the democrats actively suppressed Lincoln's support and refused to even allow him on the ballots. Lincoln literally won the entire rest of the country, it was the democrats who were spread into bitter sectional factions who accused each other of not supporting slavery strongly enough
Why didn't northern democrats prevent Lincoln from being on their ballots too?
Unionist support was always far stronger in areas without slaves, even throughout the south. West Virginia was born out of this context.
The southern states literally refused to print ballots with his name on them, and any attempts at write-ins were destroyed. It's hard to say what the results would have been if Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee actually allowed people to vote for the Republican candidate.
No just that the electoral college is whack.
only an american would think a candidate winning 50.01% of the vote is the meaning of democracy. they are incapable of imagining anything but a duopoly dominating elections for 200+ years
So a candidate winning the election getting a majority of the votes (even if it is 50.01%) isn't democraticly elected? What is he then? He didn't take power by force.
>So a candidate winning the election getting a majority of the votes (even if it is 50.01%) isn't democraticly elected?
I never said that. Looks like Americans can't read their own language as well.
republic not democracy ya dingus