> Every American should really learn about the post civil war reconstruction period before making any claims about moral superiority. Was the pre-civil war per

> Every American should really learn about the post civil war reconstruction period before making any claims about moral superiority. Was the pre-civil war period a shining bastion of morality? Pre, post or during the civil war, you can choose any time period and see unwarranted self-righteousness. I can't think of any period in US history where we could genuinely consider ourselves the moral superiors. But you don't get to be the wealthiest and the most powerful nation on earth by being morally superior. > It’s far less comfortable to see the rule of law subverted by southern KKK and militias and northern moral fatigue in the decades that follow. "Northern moral fatigue". That's cute. You make it sound like the north was any less racist.