Yes, Meathead. The fact that the US had, until this recent idiocy, revered those who fought on both sides of the conflict explains in large part why we never had Civil War II-—unlike so many dysfunctional pestilence holes around the globe.
Exactly — wiser heads prevailed that knew the number one goal had to be making us all one nation again.
The desire was to end the conflict, not perpetuate it. That is the key to understanding why the modern democratic party and political left is destroying this nation. Republicans have been trying to reach accommodation with them for fifty years and it has been an utter failure.
They are no longer just going after confederate figures, but now demanding the destruction of all symbols of American history and attacking the very ideas behind the United States. They are implacable domestic enemies funded by foreign actors.
This is also why so-called conservative politicians have been an utter failure and Donald Trump has been wildly successful in spite of his failings and missteps. He understands this is an existential struggle determining whether this nation even has a future.
“Conservative” leaders like the Bushes believe that the various democrats and leftists are simply another voice at the table wanting to shape the future of the nation. Once again, that hasn’t been true for fifty years. Clinton, Obama, their political appointees, the democrats in congress, the media, and all the various leftists groups want to enslave the US to their own power. One need look no farther than the weaponization of every bureaucracy against conservatives to understand what they have planned.
Tearing down statues is just an attempt to erase US history so people don’t have a reminder to question what the left is doing.