2/ Although it's important to note that the Union armies weren't staffed entirely by busy body proto-SJWs. Lincoln's fascist government enacted major drafts ("slavery is so bad that we need to make you our property and risk your life for political goals!"), which were >
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3/ wildly unpopular. Draft riots broke out in dozens of northern cities, and over 15% of the union army deserted, as they had no desire to (a) be enslaved by the federal government, (b) kill southerners, (c) be killed by southerners.
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4/ yes, I think everyone understands the reference; the gun in the meme is even an AK-47, to drive the point homehttps://twitter.com/jjgiorgis/status/1293876004721655808 …
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Harry Turtledove already wrote that novel in "The Guns of the South". Great story.
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We won't talk about the oedipal things Heinlein characters do with a time machine...
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*simultaneously oedipal and onanistic
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