Reconstruction wasn't particularly corrupt nor particularly a good opportunity for corruption
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Reconstruction wasn't an "idealistic but fatally flawed" enterprise. It WORKED
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It didn't collapse under its own failings, it was DEFEATED by violent, committed enemies
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I'm actually still mad abt the pseudo-enlightened factoid "The Civil War was about more than slavery" from my youth
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As with many facts there's a surface level truth, then all this complicated stuff, then a deep truth that's the same as the surface one
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"On the surface it might seem like the Confederacy were the 'bad guys' in this war but upon close examination, they totally fucking were"
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(E.g. even after Lincoln went hardcore and suspended habeas corpus for secesh in Baltimore, guess which side had more civil liberties)
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(There's a museum piece with the handprints of a VA blacksmith whose hands were shoved into molten steel for being a Union collaborator)
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(There's a monument in Frederick, MD to the hardworking townsfolk who lost all their savings when Jubal Early's men looted the town bank)
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Go read up on what happened to the POWs at Andersonville and try telling me there's any "both sides" to this story
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Sherman's March to the Sea was a brutal attempt to end the war. It's notable that once the war ended the "brutality" stopped
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Lincoln made it absolutely clear he considered the former Confederates US citizens.
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