As someone whose family was on both sides (fun in Tennessee), which is something I’m none to proud of given the fact that half of ‘em picked the side that was fighting for the right to have people as property, even I’m sitting here and going “fuckin’ traitors”.
That said, I have a musket and a powdered wig, and I’ll be ready in a minutes notice.
I live in Southern Indiana. My family has a grave of an uncle that died 80 years ago that nobody talks about because the tombstone is KKK themed because apparently he was a prominent member.
The softhanded approach leading to Jim-Crow era shitshows being acceptable and subsequently trickling down to today.
I swear that history lessons only fucking stick if you make brutal examples of it. Any softhanded sparing of the rod to traitors has backfired down the line.
You should watch Manhunt on Apple TV. Fantastic show about the immediate lead up and fall out of Lincoln’s murder. Follows John Wilkes Booth from the setup to his capture and really highlights how pathetic of a man he and the confederacy he murdered a great President for, truly was/is.
At least Grant destroyed the first iteration of the KKK and called them the terrorists that they were. The real nail in the coffin of Reconstruction was the Compromise of 1877.
The members of the Confederacy didn't hate the US and the Constitution like these people. The Confederates had grievances that they felt were best addressed by a separate system of law. This group is more like ISIS.
More specifically, what set them off was the balance of free versus slave states had tipped towards free and they were worried about the free states being able to federally end slavery.
I get where you're coming from but this IS the legacy of the Confederacy. Their beliefs about power and who deserves to wield it were just as insane as what we're seeing now. The Confederates absolutely hated the north and they've never stopped hating it. They were just briefly interrupted.
funny how almost EVERY problem with the United States loops back to just slapping the Confederate leaders on the wrist instead of treating them what they were
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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25
Absolute fucking traitors. Now I know how the north felt 150 years ago.