@lonespur This is a correlation is not causation problems. Sometimes you get the cause and effect reversed. In this case, I think we failed to punish the Confederacy because the cesspool was already in place. The cesspool made the 4/5 law. The cesspool slaughtered Native Americans from the day the Mayflower landed. English settlers inherited the cesspool Columbus built from the Spanish. We could trace it further back, but even his contemporaries thought Columbus was a brute.