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Riley's avatar

I wonder what winning looks like

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TJ Martinell's avatar

Defining what "winning" looks like would be an ideal speech topic for an Old Glory Club conference. We all know what it means in the abstract, but what does it look like in a tangible sense?

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Incompatible Component's avatar

If it's all the same to you I'm gonna keep hating Lincoln.

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Riley's avatar

What good does that do?

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Rian Stone's avatar

It's crazy how much push back you're getting for the idea of realipolitik and achieving something. People would rather be noble failures than successful

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Noah's avatar

I’m not gonna lie I went into this article skeptical but I think you’ve made a very good point in treading the line of honoring the dead/losing side and not becoming defeatists.

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Melon's avatar

Yeah - no dishonor to them if we use hindsight to correct some of their errors. It's not like they had our vantage point at the time. They did the hard work of revealing these things, and for our benefit here in the future.

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John Esten Cooke's avatar

Very good article. Southerners can and should honor their ancestors but honest conversations about why we lost and had our ambitions checked are necessary to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.

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