A long history of Mostly Peaceful Protests
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Yeah. I know there is a lot of debate around the nature of the Civil War happening, and some people starting to take a position of being more sympathetic to the South. But I have seen what the South wanted as well and actually looked at their political nature outside of the war, and its not like they were any better than the North. In many ways, they were worse (effectively wanting to recreate Feudal Europe with American characteristics).
To that end, I still take the old attitude to the Civil War that existed before it was made into a political cudgel to beat the South with in 2016ish: It was a war of brother against brother, we did horrible things to each other, but when everything was said in done and, the smoke cleared, and the scars healed, the Union victory allowed for the creation of a more perfect union, and the South was allowed to be folded back into the nation. So perhaps it is best to stop picking at the scab because you have a political grudge.
But then again, I can never bring myself to fully side with the South even if I respect their military (like Lee). Because my state was on the receiving end of Southern aggression and reprisals because we had the audacity to fight back when they tried to force us into being slave owners against our will.
Probably the big one he got semi-famous for is Hollywood was always Red, which is him going into a deep dive about how Hollywood was a communist control tool pretty much since it's founding and the moments where it was pro-US (like the 80's) was generally the exception. Its just that now everyone is finally seeing it with their own eyes. He also goes on a bit of a tangent about how McCarthy is unfairly slandered and its largely the work of, you guessed it, Hollywood.
Did you know the South was being financed by European bankers to collapse the US and allow it to be recolonized?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BrKf9nYeXT0
Lincoln’s Greenback was a fuck you to these foreign manipulators. Then he got jfk’d (or I suppose jfk got Lincoln’d).
So even if I can sympathize with some aspects of the (broader population of the) South’s motivations, I still see (like you point out) the overarching validity of the “pointless brother war” notion