It’s a good time to remember that the “stars and bars“ was not commonly used until the 1948 presidential election when the Dixiecrats used it as a Ku Klux Klan dog whistle.
It was never the symbol of the Confederate states of America, only one little battle group in Virginia.
That’s sad, not every Southerner, who takes pride and being a Southerner is a slobbering racist.
if you really wanna get past this current hate filled chapter and move onto a better society, we have to have a way or Southerners to have pride in the good parts of their culture. The same way we let other cultures off the hook for the bad things that have happened in their culture.
it is certainly not fair to hold people of African descent responsible for the fact that the worst part of rounding up the people that were used in the slave trade was done by Africans.
Still, to hell with the MAGAts, they’re doing this shit on purpose and they know what they’re doing.
The 2% inflation (together with property taxes) also forces the wealthy to keep their assets producing wealth for people other than themselves.
If they could just hoard money for generations without it deflating to worthlessness, then the level of investment and jobs would be dramatically less.
This is how the landed gentry of medieval Europe could keep all the land tied up for hunting while not having to give a shit that the serfs were starving.
Currently you have to keep your assets earning to pay for themselves which generally leads to employment and broad increases in living standards.
Or maybe the time travelers went back and faked his name onto the list as a prank.