re: #153 GeneJockey

This, although the genocide of the Native Americans gives it a good run for its money.

US history is full of awful episodes (just like everyone else’s history, pretty much). There is no American exceptionalism in history.

It takes a special kind of perversity to pick out the single worst thing from that sorry record and try to more or less justify it. It used to be mainly ‘lost cause’ fools getting all misty-eyed about the Confederacy, but these days it has progressed to where “welfare is worse than slavery” is a standard issue GOP talking point.