Post #2857000

I've been thinking about it, and I think that one of the reasons that the US is as fucked up as it is is because, at the end of the Civil War, we just let all those soldiers who had fought against us, against the ideals of the US and against the idea that black people were even people... we just let them all go home. And I know why - because the country would have collapsed without them, because it was a good chunk of our population and in order to survive, we needed them back at their jobs making food and whatever. And also, I know that a lot of them didn't even know what they were doing, really, they were just kids, they were just following orders, etc... but there were also those who were full-throated, completely bought in, absolute Confederate Patriots who were proud of what they did and were treated as heroes when they returned.