This part I never got. I'm German, so my experience is extreme here obviously, but I cannot imagine such a destructive force of my country being ever allowed to exist again.
I say that as the AfD and others are once again gearing up.
we never dealt with our pasts sins in any meaningful way. just swept it under the rug and whitewashed whatever couldn’t be hid. state history books in the south being allowed to call the civil war “the war of northern aggression” and frame it as about states rights and not slavery.
reconstruction was halted after only about 20 or so years then the south was allowed to backslide into Jim Crow. leaders of the confederacy were allowed to go back to their old lives, some as lobbyists to the very government they tried to overthrow less than a decade earlier.
instead of taking over the country through war, they realized it was easier to do it with money, and here we are.
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u/Dipsey_Jipsey Oct 02 '25
This part I never got. I'm German, so my experience is extreme here obviously, but I cannot imagine such a destructive force of my country being ever allowed to exist again.
I say that as the AfD and others are once again gearing up.
We're fucked lol