>be Andrew Johnson>grow up in poverty caused by the southern planter class>see them rape and keep the white southern people in the dirt>develop an absolute hatred of said planter class>go to school, eventually rising up through the ranks and becoming vice president to lincoln>lincoln gets killed>become president, and finally have a chance to save the southern people from the tyranny of the planter class>stop the radical republicans from punishing the south with the now freed blacks and potentially causing another civil war>the southern people finally have a chance to throw off the shackles of the planter class and slavery that was keeping them poor and retarded>your dream is so close to becoming a reality>decide to allow white southerners to have their own say, allowing the southern states extreme leniency, expecting the southern people to act in their own interests now that the shackles of cheap cotton are gone>they immediately call you white trash, stab you in the back, and put the planter class back in power, ensuring that the average southern white stays poor and retarded forever>spend the rest of your presidency being bullied by former confederates and radical republicans alike>spend the next 6 years completely dumbfounded until stroking out and dying from stress>completely unable to elaborate as you go down the most hated president in history by literally everyonethis guy's life was one gigantic meme lmao. its hard to tell if he should be blamed for being a naive and guillible retard, or for southerners being the real life equivalent of greenskins
>>18470613>stop the radical republicans from punishing the south with the now freed blacks and potentially causing another civil war No such thing. In/after war, the defeated must be completely crushed, lest they get dumb ideas about how they didn't 'really' lose, they were merely pushed back. See Germans after WW1 versus Germans after WW2. >they immediately call you white trash, stab you in the back, and put the planter class back in power, ensuring that the average southern white stays poor and retarded forever Same thing happened in Spain after Napoleon was kicked out. The resistance put back into power the same people who kept them poor and retarded before France's invasion.
>>18470613>wagie becomes jealous that a negro took his position as chattel
>>18470652>The resistance put back into power the same people who kept them poor and retarded before France's invasion.Truke, it's still extremely confusing to me why people didn't realize the abject betterment of their lives that would come with revolutionary liberation until they HAD to do it themselves 30 years later
>>18470613Also Johnson was a Stonewall Jackson type. Once he got affluent enough, he saw himself as having joined the Southern elite. He didn't care about class, one of the fundamental fictions of the Southern "way of life" was that the meanest white man had a right to life greater than the best black man. His supposed fight for the rights of white commoners was shown to be a sham when he fucked over Reconstruction being done properly by Congress and pardoned a bunch of the planter aristocracy who made up the Confederate military and civil leadership. He then took them hand in hand to shore up a new power base against the Republicans seeking to impose order on the savages south of the Mason-Dixon
>>18470613He was aight, but you’re right that he was too naive.The southern elite gave him the taste of being their level that he had wanted, and used it to twist his harm before eventually turning on him.
>>18470652fpbp. Sherman shouldn’t have stopped
Southerners are some of the most retarded people ever, to this day. Truly mystifying.
>>18470652>ensuring that the average southern white stays poor and retarded foreverHe helped to pass homestead act (giving small farmers their land),He wnted10 years term limits to supreme court judges and democratic election of senators.Like his predecessor and hero Jackson and William J.Bryan he believed in common people and in democracy
>>18471917That act failed, largely because of the southern gentry that railed against it. It was repealed in 1876 and was largely considered a failure, due in part to white southerners having put the gentry back into power, or being too retarded to actually do anything with almost free and fertile land.Unless you’re talking about the homestead act of 1862, in which case that was for the Midwest and plains states, and was very successful.
>>18471917>William J.BryanThe 5 year old WJB inspired Andrew Johnson? That must have been one helluva cross of gold he had on
