Mass media specializes in propaganda these days. Therefore, I generally avoid exposing myself to it. I prefer honest pornogrsphy to propaganda.

Collusion?

I just said blaming it on Lincoln was a Democrat propaganda trick from the old days.

Talking about facts after that, is meaningless. The source of the problem needs to be filtered first, before people can figure out the damage.

The South had a military exemption for plantation owners. Enough of them survived, intentionally so due to Sherman’s non extermination policies, after the war to reform their political plantation power dynamics. The only demographic that got devastated were the slave fodder troops used in the war, that weren’t exempt either because they didn’t own property/slaves, they volunteered to fight (vs the slave owners who opted out of fighting in a war they started), or they died due to a lack of food/shelter from the KKK and Democrat obstruction of Union/Republican efforts at Reconstruction.

However you cut it, the facts point to one cause of the disaster in the South before, during, and after the US Civil War I.

So no, the Democrat propaganda about the Democrats being butchered politically is wrong. Economically, it is half wrong. Demographically, it is lying via omission.

“[Wilson] played junior varsity hockey for the West [High School] Warriors but wasn’t a standout.”

and this,

“Brown’s family angrily denounced that video [that actually showed Brown pushing a clerk against a display case and then physically hovering over the much smaller clerk in an obvious act of physical intimidation] as character assassination.

“They’ve portrayed Brown as ‘a gentle giant,’ who liked to post photos on his Facebook page of himself with young relatives, a kid who tried football his sophomore year but abandoned the idea before his first game, fearing he might hurt someone.”

So Wilson is a failed (and presumptively frustrated) athlete while Brown is so gentle he wouldn’t even play football.

There they go again, with that old Democrat blood libel. The Democrats destroyed the South, morally, intellectually, and spiritually, way before 1860. Finding a way to blame it on Lincoln and his confederates of all people, is rich, as usual for Democrat stories.

I gave my reasons for this one. I’m not sure about anything. I said what I think based on the video I saw.

The Confederacy did just what Abe declared their SACRED RIGHT, but it turns out it lacked “having the power,” and so, with Grant and Sherman, he butchered the South for it.