Fetterman is nothing if not amusing.

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      From an outsiders perspective if you really want a catalyst point I always look to the failure of the Union to subject the slaver capitalists of the Confederacy to Nuremberg style trials for sedition and treason.

      Instead there was compromise and appeasement. The problem was swept under the rug.

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        There’s a lot of truth in this. The elites at the top of the South weren’t rooted out after their civil war and all of the bullshit going on in US politics today is a direct consequences of that failure.

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          It would have existed regardless of who you got rid of. An argument can be made that fierce retribution by the North would have only further sowed anger in the South and a divide.

          There’s also the possibility that the chance at a productive reconstruction era likely died right at the start the minute Johnson became president.

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        Nah, that shit was already bubbling over during the Revolutionary War. Remember the Three Fifths Compromise? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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          People forget or never learned how much this country was arguing before it even began, and has been arguing since then. People who idealize the past and think there’s a period of peace where everything was superb (like those that point to the 50s) are showing privilege and ignorance of various affected groups that suffered and fought our entire history. We’ve never had a moment where we all got along.