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The president is on the ballot, it's just for state office and congress. I know a couple states tried to ban Trump from being on the ballot unless he released his tax returns, but I don't think they succeeded.

That's actually not quite true. California has an open primary, and for various reasons the net result is that many elections end up being Democrat vs Democrat.

Probably not, actually. I recall reading that the south was reluctant to industrialize because those jobs weren't viable to use slave labor for. Farming already had a problem with slave labor being inefficient, and for thst the worst the slaves could do was work slower. Industrisl work? Working...

That seems unlikely, given how invested the south was in slavery as an institution, to the point they started the civil war as soon as an anti-slavery president was elected. Not a congress, not a SC, just a president. Granted, Lincoln could have and likely would have made things harder for them...

Murder was not the norm in Jim Crow, whereas it is the intended goal of war. What "new paradigm"? After WW2 and Nuremberg, everyone was all very solemn and swore that this would be the last time, we would never again allow such a horrible crime against the innocent and helpless to take place...

Fair enough, if that's how you feel that's how you feel. However, most people find attempted murder directed at them to be much worse than abusive behavior directed at others. I assure you, it's not easy to say "Hey, you know the Nazis sorta got a raw deal". But it's still true, principles...

If you are not in a position to apply a law to everyone, you are not in a position to apply it to anyone. I think there's a bit a mixed record on how binding various treaties are when one party to the treaty collapses and reforms, but even if you assume they're always binding, that's not the...

That's a fair response, but it undermines a core principle of justice: No one is above the law. The soviets, and to a much, much, much, much lesser extent the rest of the allies, either faced no consequences for thier actions during the war, or did so under the principle they were accountable to...

I don't think it's even that. Slavery was unpopular in the north, nor was there a great deal of support for the right of secession, yes. That does not mean that therefor, civil rights for black people were popular. Remember, the deadliest race riot in the US happened in New York, during the...

Yeah, this. If the people who had friends and comrades die in their arms or be blown apart by cannon fire could look past that and forgive the confederates, people today, a hundred and sixty years removed from events and having never been harmed by anyone on any side of the conflict, have no...

The confederates were bad people, fighting for an immoral government who's main policy goals were evil, and seen as such at the time, and the union was right to oppose them. Just a few years later the Union would go on to wage a number of borderline genocidal wars against native american...

Regarding the issue of confederate symbols and monuments, particularly the latter, my view is that while a number of them are genuinely odious, the issue is, as fried as said, right now the main advocates of removing them are iconoclastic mobs that have an established track record of poor...