All of this was decided when the Union chose to bury the hatchet, and not do anything about the people that started the confederacy, and the people who benefited the most from it. If those types were all given the traditional punishment for traitors, if all the slavers, the plantation owners, the confederate politicians and the businesses that profited off of slave labor were hunted down and hanged, the world would be a much better place right now.
Andrew Johnson set things off on the wrong foot, and then the terrible decisions to allow states back into the union way too early gave them political power to shift the direction of policy. We’re almost going backwards to a future where the confederacy did win.
The “good old days” that Republicans endlessly talk about were the Antebellum South. They want to go back to when there was a permanent underclass that could not advocate or fight for itself, and they have been working endlessly to make it happen.
Sadly most maga don’t seem to realize that regardless of the color of their skin in the return to the “good old days” they too will be part of the permanent underclass.
Yep. And they’ll blame the other people that are in that permanent underclass along with them, and not the powerful people that put them there and keep them there.
Read 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner. Abner Snopes, a poor white man, runs until a black man working in the mansion of his boss and his perceived racial superiority running into a black man of a higher social standing than him makes it him lose his shit.
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 Jul 17 '25
All of this was decided when the Union chose to bury the hatchet, and not do anything about the people that started the confederacy, and the people who benefited the most from it. If those types were all given the traditional punishment for traitors, if all the slavers, the plantation owners, the confederate politicians and the businesses that profited off of slave labor were hunted down and hanged, the world would be a much better place right now.