What if the South had won the Civil War? It’s the subject of many a historical parlor game, and almost got the HBO treatment in a series, eventually canceled, called “Confederate.” But it’s never discussed as anything that should have happened. Even neo-Confederates can’t bring themselves to say slavery needed to be preserved, preferring to argue that it would have died a natural death. But once slavery was vanquished by war, it was over.
The secession of the Southern states that happened on its behalf was not something anyone dared propose to do again. Of course, there was institutionalized racism and Jim Crow that picked up in the South where slavery left off, but the union that hundreds of thousands had fought over and died for held. After 1865, the idea of America tolerating a breakaway nation defined by an anti-democratic way of life became untenable, and impossible.
Or so we thought. When election denier Mike Johnson of Louisiana became speaker of […]
Wonderful documentation regarding our non-representative Republic.
While it is frightening to even think that the GOP could dominate everything in the USA, a lot of the blame has to go to social media. It’s the social media that most young people read and people who don’t subscribe to newspapers or stations that actually show the real news watch these days with a very distorted view of how this country should be run. If those voters who seem to support the deranged Donald Trump would just listen and ask themselves, “So how is what he is saying going to help me make more money, have health care, have better schools for my children, clean up the pollution and other factors in the environment, protect us against the climate changes seemingly to take place sooner and sooner?” He speaks none of that. His entire message is retribution for HIMSELF!!! That’s the key—–what’s in it for HIM!!! Not you!