American History

and that of RFK were two events that hugely damaged this nation.

Had Lincoln lived reconstruction would have gone very differently. He supported seizing the huge estates of the major rebel/slave owners--as was allowed under the law--and dividing the land and awarding it to newly freed Blacks and poor whites. The first thing Johnson did after taking the oath of office was to remove juresdiction of all traitor lands from the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands and essentially giving it back to the traitors.

This land reform Lincoln (which was also supported by Progressive Republicans) would have given poor whites an investment in the new South, which might have gone a long way to breaking the back of the white supremacist oligarchy.

And I think RFK would have beat Nixon in 1968, which would have been another pivot for the best. The continuation of Great Society programs and a much earlier end to the American occupation of Vietnam would have followed.

We're still suffering from the acts of those two murderers. In Booth's case his act was one of white supremacist terrorism, pure and simple.