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The United States is Falling Apart and the World is Taking Notice (www.counterpunch.org)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In three weeks, Donald Trump has imploded whatever positive image the United States might have had internationally.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not punishing the Confederacy, in my opinion, is where this country went to hell.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Agreed. They should have hanged the Southern elite, and occupied the former confederate states under martial law for at least three generations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

history without President Andrew Johnson, so much could have been different