The South will rise again!
-The underlying belief motivating all of this
Remember Project 2025.
Indeed, +1.
Because you people didn’t punish the South after the civil war and then let a bunch of richwhitemen run the fucking country.
Reconstruction was ended too early, in large part because of the Lincoln assassination, and the very questionable choice to appease the South by putting Andrew Johnson a heartbeat away from the presidency
We definitely should have been draconian in punishing the south, but our greatest mistake is civility politics. The leaders were all in the same social circles, and to this day that’s a recurring problem that plagues most democracies. They didn’t want real consequences for their buddies
So all in all, we didn’t strip enough power from the leadership and stopped punishment way earlier than even the overly light-handed plan in place
Wish I could up vote your comment twice. There needs to be retribution dolled out to the South for this.
I’m sorry. Are people actually confused about why? It’s all just personal enrichment. This isn’t complicated.
Usually, if you want enrich yourself or your friends, you’d want to create a climate favorable to economic growth and skim little off the top of that using the usual corruption methods. You don’t want to start a multitude of trade or literal wars that threaten the global economy.
If it wasn’t for Trump being the cause of this, you’d almost think this collapse is intentional…
They have been doing this looooong before donnie d’felon came onto the scene.
See Newt’s GOPAC and how they documented their tactics to demonize normal Americans, in other words, anyone not a conservative/ Republican in their memo: Language: A Key Mechanism of Control. The evidence goes back further than that (see Democracy in Chains for how little conservatives really care about democracy, or how Nixon was going after “drugs” in order to go after their political foes), but this is from 1990.
Oh yes the War on Minorities err I mean Drugs.
Nothing like destroying millions of minority families and disproportionally locking up anyone who is not white.
Honestly, the whole Democracy thing is just a smoke screen for oligarchy rule. The US government pits the house (supposed to represent the people) against the senate, judicial, and executive branch (representing the wealthy). 3 to 1 odds are pretty shitty and a poor excuse for a democracy that ultimately is lip service only.
If I visit the States, should I visit Micihgan, Missssssppq, or the sunny Pqsqr keys?
Lol, the clanker can’t even spell Mississippi.
I prefer South Carouna.
Why? Because we’re an oligarchy from the start and this is what happens when special interests run the show for decades (centuries, even)
This is what everyone fails to see. The US was corrupt to begin with. Our first President was on his way to becoming the world’s first billionaire adjusted for inflation and he would have if not for dying at 67.
People are like how did we get so corrupt!?
eye roll
Did you just notice, because it has always been this way.
Turns out Alexander Hamilton got everything he wanted, centralized federal power and ‘democracy’ in name only. Don’t listen to the musical lol
The billionaires are now richer than many nation states.
I guess the next development is that they will start to go to war against each other over commercial advantage.
Guess who will be in the front line as part of the Great Amazon-SpaceX War?
Not Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk.
I think it’s starting, they have shorted the shit out of spacex
Because they want to divide up territory with the tech bros and be governors to their own little spaces.
What, vote for a woman?
What war? Gas prices are so high now!
Pride, hate, and greed
Destroy it’s value and then sell it at a firesale to his billionaire buddies.
Fascism gonna fasc.
The question is not “why?” Anytime you’re stuck asking “why” about a situation, you’re in denial. The real question every decent person needs to be asking themselves and everyone else:
What would you sacrifice to make the world a better place for other people?
And if the answer is “nothing” or “not much,” you’re part of the problem.
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