It’s also significant that the racist traitors in the 1860s tried to do something like the Confederation (hence Confederacy) and immediately ran into a bunch of the same problems, like not being able to effectively fight a war against a more centralized enemy while also not having coherent national policy because your ideology demands decentralization.
They learned nothing, which tracks.
Also there’s also some stuff about states not wanting to accept each other’s funbux and calling each other thieves, plus doing trade war shit to each other.
On top of the existing history this helps highlight the extent to which the Confederation was a terrible idea. On the one hand nobody likes a tyrant, on the other hand you can’t run a country like this unless you want nonstop chaos and internecine violence.
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