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Jesus Christ, the sarcasm is thick. You even used the word "wrongthink". It's not a conspiracy or anything like you're describing, it's that moderate politics is often just... wrong. Believe it or not, there's sometimes a right answer, and a wrong answer. And if you go "in the middle" you end up being wrong. I mean, take a small gander a history. There's usually a right answer... and a wrong one. Typically, in the mo…
I don't think anyone thought the 3/5s compromise was morally correct, people either didn't care or were willing to live with it in pursuit of another goal. Also, as you said: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation there's a name for it!
I disagree, they absolutely thought it was morally correct because morals progress throughout history.
What I think people miss is that slavers were evil people doing evil things. No, they were normal people doing normal things. And that's much more scary.