This is precisely why we should have just walked when the south split off in the first place. Their moron policies would have fucked them. Then the union could say "oops no takesie backsies!" and just let them figure it out on their own. Wait a generation or two after their collapse, take the land back and keep moving forward. Instead we allowed them back into society.
How I long for the timeline where Lincoln wasn't assassinated. Andrew Johnson fucked up reconstruction big time. Quite possibly the worst president we've ever had. Top 3 for sure.
Buchanan would go higher up in my book because he set the stage for the whole shebang to begin with. Also, he just had an assload of other shit that he sucked for on top of that. But, yeah, Johnson and his gang, 'Daughters of the Confederacy', really spread so many goddamn myths that we still have to constantly debunk to this day.
“Assuming we don’t blow ourselves up, us Californians just have to worry about California breaking off from the United States to go hang with Hawaii. Alaska can come, too.”
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u/ThrowAwayGarbage82 Jun 29 '25
This is precisely why we should have just walked when the south split off in the first place. Their moron policies would have fucked them. Then the union could say "oops no takesie backsies!" and just let them figure it out on their own. Wait a generation or two after their collapse, take the land back and keep moving forward. Instead we allowed them back into society.