[ SECRET POST #2727 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2727 ⌋

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Comments

[visp]

True. I mean, say what you will about us, we didn't have a guillotine party, or start hunting out "counter-revolutionaries."

[mekkio]

America is really an odd duck when it comes to things like that. Like take our civil war and compare it to other civil wars. In the history of other civil wars the winning side gathers up the losing side's leaders and executes them. And often punishes the losing side by making them second class citizens or worse. Not so in the American Civil War. When asked what to do with the losing side, Lincoln told them to release them and let them go home. That there had been enough blood shed and it was time for the nation to heal. And to us, as Americans, that makes total sense. But this is unheard of in almost every other part of the world. It would be considered madness.

I think that's why the rest of world find Americans so hard to understand. We don't follow the usual pattern of how things are done. We haven't since the beginning and we aren't going to start now.

[(Anonymous)]

If you could find another civil war where both sides were more or less the same ethnicity, class, and religion, you would probably find more examples. That's the distinct thing with the American Civil War more than the American spirit probably.

Regarding the American Revolution, there's a strong argument that one of the main distinguishing characteristics between the American Revolution and the French and other European revolutions was poverty. IE, poverty was MUCH more entrenched and wretched and dehumanizing in Europe than in America, where the relatively recent settlement and the conditions of relative plenty in terms of land and resources largely ameliorated it. And so poverty took on a much more central stage in European revolutions, leading to increased factionalism and radicalism driven by attempts to eliminate it and by the immediacy of the demands of the poor.

[(Anonymous)]

All three of the English Civil Wars went this way, with a few executions at the top (or none in the case of Stephen and Matilda) and everyone else being sent home. The Meiji Restoration - where the opposing samurai were then trained as the new police force - is another example.

[visp]

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