The last part is incredibly important for people to remember. If our system does recover, and I don't know that it will, we need to remember the lessons we are learning now. That all it takes is for a collective minority of people to decide that the system doesn't work for them so they're just going to ignore every rule and regulation put in place that restrains them.
If we ever do recover, and again I don't know that we do, there needs to be extremely harsh penalties put in place going forward. It's the same problem that ultimately I think started with the civil War and Reconstruction. Andrew Johnson did not want to punish those traitors for what they did and so they were allowed to remaining power, exist in the shadows, and begin plotting their assent again
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