It occurred to me that Nazi ideology was entrenched in the German people from as early as the 1920s and officially since 1933 to 1945. You’d think that such a systemic worldview would be difficult to eradicate but it would seem Nazism was quickly removed after the Allies and Russians conquered them.
On the flip side, the Taliban have an entrenched ideology, but despite being occupied for over 20 years they returned to power overnight.
So, I guess two questions: Why didn’t the Nazis wage a guerrilla campaign to retake power? And why were we unable to destroy the Taliban the way we did Nazism?
In America’s case, it was not allowing Gen. Sherman to finish his job properly in the South.
I can kinda see that. Sure as hell, there wasn’t enough change made, and the same bullshit kept on happening.
I can’t say that it works out exactly the same, but it’s a pretty good pick for a huge mistake that would have made for a better humanity despite the cost of it.
However, I think that if the political and legal pressure to change southern culture had been kept up, it would have been effective eventually in bringing an improvement. Sure as shit, too many of the same assholes kept power and money after the civil war, and that’s a recipe for another hundred plus years of oppression and stomping on the nominally equal (but never truly given the fruits of freedom and equality) freed slaves.
It’s a stain I don’t think the country can ever erase.