RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
April 16, 2024 at 1:23 am
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2024 at 1:33 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(April 15, 2024 at 4:52 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: 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.
This is a really thoughtful point, especially the last sentence. That said, I think Lee was a little more thoughtful and complex than der Donald -- though more of a traitor, in my lights. He turned his back on his thirty+ years of service, after all. I respect his misguided sense of honor. But at the end of the day, it was misguided.
