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Explain me the apparent obcession America has with it's civil war. (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My country has had a civil war, invasions by the french, by the spanish, more recently a revolution that threw a fascist government, followed by a very colourful period of internal squirmishes between anti-regime forces, but we settled those events and that was that: off to the history books.

What motivates so many people to re-enact battles from the American Civil War?

It sounds cruel. Re-enacting a war where so many died gruesome deaths.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Because we're a nation made out of ideology, but we have two. We believe in the freedom of all people, liberty and justice for all, all people are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights, etc all that shit we won't shut up about. But we're also a nation of domination, genocide, chattel slavery, and Christian nationalism.

The civil war was the closest we came to resolving that dichotomy. It was also one of the first two sided industrial wars, so you know, rivers running red, bloodlines ending in an afternoon. But mostly it was a war for the soul and substance of our nation.

Then right after the war the president was killed, reconstruction was botched, and the granddaughters of slavers erected monuments to their evil grandpappies while calling it the war of northern aggression. We never resolved the root conflict so we still are stuck on it