After “the Late Unpleasantness”, there was an semi-unspoken agreement that went something like this:
“We (the South) acknowledge that you won, and we won’t try it again.”
“We (the North) are proud of our victory, but we won’t be jerks about it.”
That led to such quirks of Americana as Confederate soldier statues (facing north, of course) in southern towns, and US Army bases named for West Point graduates who had served as leaders in the Confederate States Army.
Now, we have revolutionary leftists and self-righteous jerks throwing that agreement in the trash. America is the worse off for their efforts.
That was well said. Meanwhile, we have revealed on this thread (as on so many others on this site nowadays) those who have no understanding of the world in which they live or the identity and the nature of the enemies of our liberty. For the most part, I ascribe this to the fact that so many self-identifying "conservatives" really do live up to the stereotype of being, let's face it, not too terribly bright.
You’d think they would have the good sense to realize the one uniting thing about the Civil War: we were ultimately all Americans.
The people whining about certain military bases and other facilities being named after “traitors” should be held in the highest suspicion.