Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
Comparing the issue to slavery is asking for trouble, but there are some similarities. Prior to the rise of Lincoln and the Republicans, slavery was the pressure-point for ideological voting. You either supported states' rights to do as they pleased, or you were some kind of hippy who wanted the federal government to step in and do something about the backwards reactionaries who refused to accept social and economic change.

The issues are different, but the political situation is very much the same. Reactionary forces have dug in and chosen their issues, and the rest of the nation has begun to recognize that they're loonies not to be taken seriously.
I certainly was not making any claim about moral equivalence between the issues. Only about the political divisiveness factor.

I see smaller government as a more moral choice of governance, but human freedom is even more so.