And so much of it is made the more absurd because it's defending such recent atrocities. The civil war was in the 19th centuries (the atrocity being slavery and not the civil war, to be clear), as were the robber barons, as was the trail of tears. It always feels insane to treat anything that occurs within the history of the USA as somehow ancient when it's such a young country.
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And so much of it is made the more absurd because it's defending such recent atrocities. The civil war was in the 19th centuries (the atrocity being slavery and not the civil war, to be clear), as were the robber barons, as was the trail of tears. It always feels insane to treat anything that occurs within the history of the USA as somehow ancient when it's such a young country.
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