RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
April 15, 2024 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2024 at 4:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 15, 2024 at 12:16 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(April 15, 2024 at 12:05 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: I do wonder if he really wanted to defend the United States like he swore to? Doubtful, at least to me.
I don't. He graduated near the top of his West Point class. He served honorably for over three decades, including combat in Mexican-American War. The fact that he resigned his commission in order to fight for the Confederacy speaks to a feeling that the right to own another human being was more important to him than the honorable three decades' of service.
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Lee was open before during and after the war about how he didn't believe in the cause, or the revolution, or the confederacy - and he opposed confederate monuments in the aftermath even as they were actively mythologizing him. Directly before the war (but after states began to declare) it does seem like he no longer wanted to fight at all. Ultimately, at least in his own eyes, his loyalty was to his state over his nation. He ends up killing a bunch of virginians all the same.
I think the closest lee and trump can be is in how neither of them believed in the offices they occupied, and they both managed to kill a bunch of the people they said they were protecting.
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