Would the USA be better today if we had just let the South secede?

[Alea]

158. Thanks denbot. I took no offense to anything you said.

I was probably a little curt with my first statement to you in fact. I'm new here, sort of new to politics, and still trying to find my way. I've been called a russian bot, troll, comrade, and all the names people use when a new member with a low post count gets called if they don't echo with the chamber appropriately, and sometimes I don't react well to it. I have to keep in mind the suspicions people here may have of new members, and sometimes rightfully so.

You mentioned CB radio in your truck and the hateful things people say on it. My Dad has always had a base station radio and use to keep one in his vehicles. As I was growing up I could always hear it in the background at our house and heard the most vile disgusting talk coming out of that thing. Most of the people he talked to were normal people, but there were some that were just plain scary, and definitely racist. I can imagine what you hear driving on the roads every day. In our area very few people talk on the radio anymore. He has a few old steady friends that chat early in the morning but I guess all the idiots and trouble makers went to twitter to harass people.