Richard Nixon should have been prosecuted.
Andrew Johnson should have been convicted when he was impeached.
yup. for his original crime of colluding with the vietnamese to draw out the war so heād win election.
LBJ even called it treason. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21768668
Throw the United Daughters of the Confederacy into a gulag in the decades after the Civil War.
Expounding upon the Civil War origins of our problems:
Every member of Confederate āhigh commandā, both military and civilian, should have been executed.
The wealth and property of any slaveholding plantationers should have been seized by force and redistributed to the formerly enslaved to follow through on the āforty acres and a muleā edict. Allowing slavers to keep and/or regain control of their wealth was a critical error.
The South should have had their participation in the federal government stripped away from them and been under US military rule for at least a generation.
Of course all this assumes that there was the public heart to actually stand up for black people and truly punish the slavers, where the reality was at best complicated, and more likely highly disappointing.
Were they indirectly responsible for the rise of the alt-right?
Todayās alt-right is a descendant of earlier subaltern right movements that tried to make headway in the mainstream, and the UDC is one of the most successful examples of that.
Nah. If it wasnāt Trump, it wouldāve been someone else. Thereās a lot of bad people out there.
Unpopular opinion, but the US was destined to go alt-right since it was founded.
Agree. People tend to not realize that the system itself is the problem, not the people currently at the top of the pyramid. They are exchangable, as long as the (capitalist) system itself is still in place
And itās so frustrating to see it out in the world. Folks I know are so close but still are reticent to accept it
Maybe the US shouldāve become a socialist country during the Great Depression.
No. Populist movements have been growing worldwide, and most of them have been far-right.
I read some time ago that after Nixon Resigned there wa some rich guy (Roger ailed maybe) that decided he was going to prevent that from happening again. And went all in on propaganda. Other rich guys got involved over time (Murdoch), think tanks were built, and hooks were learned and workshopped, aids in the 80ās racismā¦ basically always, anti transā¦ Whatever got their voter based angry.
So shut that down, turn off the 24/7 propaganda.
Maybe the US shouldāve become a socialist country during the Great Depression.
And read and study Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Bernstein?
Actually have the Christopher Columbusās crew finish their mutany and go home before reaching the new world
*edit: not appropriate here
wouldnāt it be nice to say we should have executed all european nobility at so some specific point
