Niki Haley failed American history 101- the Civil War was about slavery

Echo opinion published in the South Florica Sun Sentinel newspaper, by the editorial board:

American Civil War (1861-1865) was about slavery!

Republican Niki Haley claimed that the Civil War was about freedom and “what people could or couldn’t do”; but, her wrong minded respone shows the muddled reality of GOP orthodoxy.

Nikki Haley goes on Civil War autopilot, runs over her own campaign.

Republican governors and state lawmakers passed laws for years restricting access to voting, banning books in schools, limiting women’s reproductive health choices, denying parents’ decisions to medically treat their transgender children, cutting off health care to poor children, and enabling anybody to buy deadly weapons — to mention only the most prominent policies they espouse.

None of these actions enhances anyone’s “freedom.” All are designed to limit one’s freedom and to conform to someone else’s notion of well-being. Conservative political theory is based on less government intrusion into personal lives, yet Republicans pursue policies that put the hand of government into people’s affairs at every level.

Do Republicans even know anymore what the substantive meaning of freedom truly is? The record does not show convincing evidence that they do — or that they care.

Haley's answer to the simplest question ever, at a New Hampshire town hall, tells me that she really believes the Civil War was about states’ rights, as she doubled down with her answer. 

Moreover , Haley said people should have the right to anything (❓) without government involvement. So, that means that states could determine on their own whether slavery could exist in that state and not in others (but she never mentioned the word slavery).

Haley knows the history, yet she glibly said: “What do you want me to say about slavery❓” (with a smile). The following day she accused the questioner of being a “plant,” set up by the Democrats. But this was just another nail in her political coffin. (Shame on Haley for blaming the questioner, rather than own her ignorance about slavery as the reason for the Civil War.)

In the year 1619, was the beginning of African slavery in the continental British colonies that became the United States. The events of 1619 are documented and the British became the major importers of African slaves to North America,

Our first woman president couldn’t possibly be one that rejects Roe v. Wade and agreed with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn it. Her denial of slavery as being the cause of the Civil War is just the tip of the iceberg for Haley’s interpretation of freedom in America. So, beware of charm and good looks. It’s the same as the MAGA group that has overtaken the Republican Party, perhaps forever.

From Linda Gefen, in Boca Raton, Florida