It worsened visibly with the dixiecrat switch, because they are a single issue voting bloc (racism).

They actually tried to run as a third party, but the dixiecrat party lost in 48, having failed to spoil truman. Thurmond’s speeches here are quite profound.

The problem is that we have a voting bloc that literally wants only one thing, and it’s concrete, not a vague notion of Healthcare and reducing income inequality with no concrete steps and massive, united opposing interests.

Maybe get minorities to appreciate how many dixiecrats vote the way they do only because they see non-whites as animals?

Doubtful. I didn’t believe it myself till I lived there, the level of hate is just impossible to fathom.

My family moved me there in high school, I managed to escape after college.

It gets better, that’s all I can say, just keep your head down and try to survive.

They’re monsters, but hopefully you can leave soon.

Absolutely not!

What kind of message does that send?!

We should have given all the slavers to their slaves, and then just walked away.

Let nature quietly take its course.

I don’t think they would take them.

I just figured we need to build a wall, Mexico too, I’m sure they’d be glad to pitch in for their side to keep the worthless meth trash off their lawn.

Actually it was more cars, they made a huge change to society and people were able to take loans to buy them assuming they’d be able to pay with their jobs.

The problem with that solution is it makes us no better than they are.

Well, a little better, we’d be saving the world from their filth and evil.

But personally, let’s replace them with hardworking, decent Mexicans, who seem to make such better Americans because they don’t take it for granted.

But the south is just destroying us as a nation, again, and our mercy is why, we needed to hand over the entire ruling class of the south over to their slaves and just walked away.

160 years of evil and suffering because of a moment of mercy, how unfortunate.

The south.

The Nuremberg Laws were Jim crow but with the one drop rule crossed out and Hitlers name written at the top.

Black GIs came back from liberating Europe, to be lynched for being ‘too uppity’.

If it wasn’t for the south desperately trying to drag us into their filth we wouldn’t have had W, we wouldn’t have Trump, we could have had universal Healthcare and just generally not sold everything out to the oligarchs.

The rise of the United States was due to the destruction of the south as a political power, allowing the rest of the country to grow, for instance the transcontinental railroad.

Cancer can go into remission, but it doesn’t always stay there.

It’s not quite that.

The dixiecrats took over, the ones who are still enraged we took away Jim crow.

They have given the GOP a rabid base of racists who will support any economics because they don’t know what the word means.

The south:

“This train don’t stop till we’re back in the early 1800s!”

And always will be.

I grew up for a while in the south.

In the south you aren’t racist unless you act on it.

After 9/11 they felt they had permission to act on it, just like Trump gave them permission again.

But if they feel those things and talk about them amongst themselves, it doesn’t count.

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No, not at all.

They’re rejoicing, because the cleansing fire of Atom is at hand!

Nah.

The civil war resulted in the horribly and completely evil south being knocked out of national political dominance for decades.

That led to the rise of the US as a global super power, including the transcontinental railroad and the progressive movement of Teddy Roosevelt.

Their return to political prominence is accompanied by the fall of America as the greatest hyperpower in human history.

No, everyone not appreciating what we had 7 months ago is what led to the status quo now.

But please keep whining like a 3 year old about how bad biden/kamala are and genocide Joe.

The status quo 5 months ago?

We can dare to dream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izium_mass_graves

Russia is ethnically cleansing Ukraine.

They’re replaying WW2, but this time they’re taking the part of Hitler.

Fuck your whataboutism, the Russians have to be taught to stay in their filthy country.

Edit: again. They’re ethnically cleansing Ukraine again.

Perhaps we should also have Russians charging through, bayonetting children and raping young women while they’re at it?

Fuckers broke the peace of Europe.

If they don’t pay in all their blood then we are rewarding people for causing more war.

Doesn’t look like anything to me.

There are a lot of good Americans in our armed forces.

Unfortunately, there are also a lot of trash too.

So yeah, I think some units might hesitate, while others would laugh gleefully at the chance to kill ‘elitist europeans’ or whoever they can.

This is basically a video game to them, the only difference is they’re not 2 joints in on their couch in Tennessee.