straight away

Makes sense caustic

Although authoritarians should be kicked out asap, they will only corrupt and seek to control the movement

yeah but some authoritarians are just misinformed

they've probably never heard of a reasonable counter argument

Im not saying dont debate them or dont let them speak

to their beliefs

What i am saying is dont let them into the party

Yeah

Shed brought up a good point too, history's lessons are often lost in translation

What do you guys think about Nancy Pelosi?

The point of history is to provide a perspective, to show how things react and how outside forces keep working. The lesson from history classes should be that there is a grand game being played and everyone is an essential part of it, regardless of whether they realize it or not.

Yes

Agree with her one some things and disagree with her on others

For example I am strongly in favor of allowing confederate monuments to stand because of how well the US held itself together post civil war

same, but I completely despise her because of how much money she's gotten off big corporations

Those monuments are a part of culture/history of the south and they are as a american as it gets

policy wise, some things I agree but some things I disagree on

For better or worse those people fought and died for what they thought would be a better future. The soldiers and leaders deserve to be honored and remembered.

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Though I think that such a truth should not make people forget one of the main causes for the civil war

People who say that the war was about slavery are correct. People who say that the war was about states rights are correct too.

The war was a question: Should the federal government in the US should have enough power to completely ruin the economy of a large portion of the country?

Yeah, I agree, maybe war was necessary; but they commited some atrocities in the name of the federal government that left

the south in ruin

Indeed, which is why the reconstruction was so vital that the North not occupy the south, but help them rebuild and go hands off as much as possible.

There are many people who think that the Union should have occupied the south and forced them to change their ways.

There should have been an operation to revitalise the southern economy

The south being left in ruin leads to a lot of people becoming far right, it was foolish of the north to have banned slavery, ruin the south and then not try fix the southern economy

It leads to political divide

There was no option for most of the south to be revitalized

They were based entirely around slave agricultural cash crops with very little industry or natural resources to go with it

Yeah, but many countries have been reformed drasticaly

I think if the federal government had spent money on building industry there

it would not have been as bad

Whatever they would have built wouldve been overshadowed by the northern version as they had been operating longer doing the same tasks

Not if they spent a long time constantly investing in southern industry

but that would be quite a complex thing to do

Indeed and its never as simple as it sounds.

I mean it's possible, it's just that it'd be very difficult and I mean very

The issue is that theres nothing to improve and no missing industry