One of our greatest mistakes after the Civil War was... [View all]

[TreasonousBastard]

letting Southern slaveowners and revolutionaries off with a slap on the wrist. They should have been ground into the dust of history, rather than been celebrated as misled heros.

After WW2, the Allies, and many Gernans, understood that all vestiges of naziism had to be surprrssed. The Hitler salute, swastika, ss uniforms, etc all were illegal in very short order. Any support of Nazis or Holocaust denial was immediately put down. Germans, with our support, were almost as ruthless stamping it out as they were once in supporting it.

Thing is, there were still millions of Nazis in Germany and around the world, claiming theat they had a right to their views. They soon found out that they didn't. But it is a hell of whack a mole game trying to shut them up.

Here in the US, we never even tried. Whatever the fuck is a statue of Lee doing at West Point?

And so many of those statues were raised in the 1930s as a sop to the racist scumbags of the time. If we had properly ground them to dust after the civil war, we wouldn't have eliminated them, but we would have made current problems easier to deal with.

So, start the grinding now. There is no legal protection for any bloodthirsty asshole threatening a judge or properly elected politician.