With extreme longevity too.
Every time we get close to pulling back from it, the population gives in to the immense urge to prove that we’re utterly vile cretins, and reverses the last 30 years of progress.
If we executed the traitors’ leadership like we should have.
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This was a necessary, but not sufficient action to break their spirits. Much more than just the leadership would need to directly affected somehow to achieve that goal.
With how dependent Southern society as a whole was on the planter aristocracy, I suspect a few thousand hanged slavers might’ve been enough to break their ability to organize against Reconstruction, at least long enough for it to take root.
We had such progress in the Reconstruction years, even with literal guerilla bands of racists fight against it. It makes a man want to cry to think about how near-run a thing it was. How much better race relations in this country would have been through the 20th century… how many lives saved, from death, from ruin, from pointless persecution…
God damned Andrew Jackson, man.
Sherman should have kept going all the way to the Florida keys and fed them all to gators.
Hard to gain progress when the nails continue to vote for the hammers.
"White women are still voting for the Republican candidate
Although women as a whole have historically voted for Democrats, white women have not. Instead, over the last 72 years, a plurality of white women have voted for the Democratic candidate only twice, in 1964 and 1996."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/election-trump-harris-women-voters
