Rip Van Winkle wrote:jdege wrote:Politicians who were on the "other side" being prosecuted and removed from office.
I'm just wondering if we're ever going to reach the point where it becomes apparent that the elected officials who are enabling these criminals are doing so intentionally.
I don't think there's any doubt about it to those of us paying attention.
The thing is, the last time we went through this, we took damage both from the insurrectionists and from those who opposed them.
It's impossible to make a moral case for the Confederacy, but what the Union did to the structure of the American political system was far from ideal.