what if?

From Vicksburg battleground, Voice in the Wilderness concludes:

Thankfully, the people and government of the Union thought that a United States of America and the elimination of slavery were worthy causes for the grievous price paid at Vicksburg and countless other battlefields strewn across the Southern and Eastern states.

This is part of what makes America exceptional versus other nations throughout history. It’s not that we’re perfect. Far from it, actually. But, we eventually do recognize what is wrong with our society and eliminate it, even at great pain and cost, because it is the right thing to do.

But, what if the North had the same attitude as today’s elites? What if post-modernism, multiculturalism, and the other mental and moral diseases stalking today’s academic, government, and cultural centers existed back then? Would they be willing to put forth the blood and treasure necessary to see the campaign and siege to its final, decisive conclusion? If not, what would our world be like today?

Let's ponder that...

The War of Northern Aggression was most definitely NOT about slavery. It was about the barbarians from the north imposing their centralized dictatorship onto a country which had been founded as a confederation of sovereign states. Slavery was already on the decline as the Industrial Revolution began. It would have been nearly gone in all of the States by the beginning of the 20th century.

Immediately after their hostile takeover, they embarked on a systematic pillaging of their former countrymen, which they named (in true orwellian fashion) the Reconstruction.

Within 50 years of their takeover, that centralized government had devised the unconstitutional income tax.

Within 100 years, it had invented the Ponzi scheme known as social security.

Shortly after that, it embarked on a new extortion, withholding transportation funding from any State that did not enforce the ridiculous 55mph speed limit.

For at least a century, the north's financial capital, New York, has been a center for immorality and perversion, and (slightly more recently) broadcasts that filth through the airwaves.

So to answer the question "what would our world be like today?", I say it would be much much better off.