What truly went wrong is the aftermath of WW2. Nazis shouldn’t have been let off as easily as they were - especially the ones that escaped justice to countries like Argentina.
That easy-handedness allowed the ideology to survive just long enough for those who saw the atrocities to mostly die off, and to plan ahead and arise through “backdoor channels” on the fringes of society, let that be the Neo-Nazi skinhead or biker groups, incels, or other similar brainwashed extremities of people - generally tons of dim-witted morons misled easily by the handful of intelligent, actually morally fucked ones in charge.
I too hope the US manages another civil war and gets broken up, because the political imbalance both internally due to the fucked up, rigid political systems and externally due to the constant influence they exert over others, is not tenable. A more EU-like approach between the 50 states (plus DC plus PR) would be much more beneficial to both the states and the world.
The South was never properly reconstructed. We got rid of legal slavery, granted the right to vote, and then fucked off back to the North. That’s why the South is the butt of every joke about education, poverty, and provincialism. And those factors combine to make it a breeding ground for those ideologies.
And the South is Trump’s powerbase. It’s where he gets all his ICE agents, his grip on the Senate, House, and EC, etc.
The South is also the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement and the part of the country with the highest percentage of black population.
It’s easy for folks in places like Minnesota to pretend they aren’t racist when they barely ever interact with people of other races to begin with.
Make no mistake: it’s rural people in all states who are bigots, not southerners. The only reason states in the south are still “red” is that they tend to have slightly higher percentages of rural populations than blue states do.
The South isn’t the only issue here.
What truly went wrong is the aftermath of WW2. Nazis shouldn’t have been let off as easily as they were - especially the ones that escaped justice to countries like Argentina.
That easy-handedness allowed the ideology to survive just long enough for those who saw the atrocities to mostly die off, and to plan ahead and arise through “backdoor channels” on the fringes of society, let that be the Neo-Nazi skinhead or biker groups, incels, or other similar brainwashed extremities of people - generally tons of dim-witted morons misled easily by the handful of intelligent, actually morally fucked ones in charge.
I too hope the US manages another civil war and gets broken up, because the political imbalance both internally due to the fucked up, rigid political systems and externally due to the constant influence they exert over others, is not tenable. A more EU-like approach between the 50 states (plus DC plus PR) would be much more beneficial to both the states and the world.
The South was never properly reconstructed. We got rid of legal slavery, granted the right to vote, and then fucked off back to the North. That’s why the South is the butt of every joke about education, poverty, and provincialism. And those factors combine to make it a breeding ground for those ideologies.
And the South is Trump’s powerbase. It’s where he gets all his ICE agents, his grip on the Senate, House, and EC, etc.
Yeah. We should have finished the job there and de-KKK’ed the South like they did denazification in Germany.
Certainly we should have known things were way off course when they were allowed to put up statues of traitors to this country.
The South is also the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement and the part of the country with the highest percentage of black population.
It’s easy for folks in places like Minnesota to pretend they aren’t racist when they barely ever interact with people of other races to begin with.
Make no mistake: it’s rural people in all states who are bigots, not southerners. The only reason states in the south are still “red” is that they tend to have slightly higher percentages of rural populations than blue states do.
Out of necessity? And that’s hardly a positive achievement.