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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (399255)	2/10/2019 1:34:52 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541637

You are still not seeing that history is relative. Present thinking is nothing like past thinking. Each person and event must be judged relative to the time it happened. That is called "context". Context is the whole ball game.It is the recipe for understanding. I am judging Lincoln against the thought of the time. He was way ahead of his time. Very progressive and honorable. I have read his biographies. I am just using different perceptions than you and it is NOT revisionist history when someone does not judge as you do!! Lincoln was a hard core liberal at his time. In fact he only won because the South split the vote. Liberals were hated then too-lol!! Lincoln got his votes from the liberal north east, not the conservative southeast slave states!! That makes him a liberal and modern day Democratic. <<You act as though history is static." The past is fixed. New facts may arise to change our understanding of it, but there is no evidence to support your claim that Lincoln was a Dem. You calling him one is revisionist history.