Reconstruction was not harsh enough. Ideally the whole Confederate

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Reconstruction was not harsh enough. Ideally the whole Confederate officer corps should've been executed. The planter class should've been liquidated and their property should've been redistributed to poor whites and freedmen.

The Southern states should've been dissolved and new states made in their place. Electorates should've been redrawn, with gerrymandering favouring urban centres.

Given the assassination of Lincoln, the necessity of this all should've been all the more clearer. It could've been a wonderful precedent for the detention of the Boers.

Instead the Anglo culture of the United States fell into that same trap of being "merciful" - just as it would with Versailles.

Imagine the possibilities of a United States strong enough, farsighted enough, to see the absolute necessity of destroying the enemies of political progress. Imagine how quickly the War in Afghanistan, the War in Iraq, the Vietnam and the Korean War could've been resolved had American decision-makers been visionary enough to see the enemies for what they were - subhuman obstacles - and thus outright deployed nuclear weapons as a first resort. Imagine the possibilities if the United States was willing to execute Japan's Emperor and atomize any civilian Japanese populations that resisted. Imagine how beautiful it would all be, if the United States would be willing to lobotomize terrorists, stripping them of the ideology that empowers them.

Instead, liberal leniency and half-heartedness has resulted in a United States that engages in hand-wringing and navel-gazing when it is all too clear which political obstacles need to be annihilated.

Liberalism is the bane of the United States. Lying, dishonest liberalism, which claims to desire progress but is too short-sighted to do what is necessary to achieve it.

Thankfully, with metaphysical idealism, I am already dreaming about a stronger United States, creating an alternate timeline where it is embracing its manifest destiny.