Top five greatest moral failures in American history

[EnergizedLib]

In no particular order, here are mine:

- Slavery

- Segregation

- Jim Crow

- Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II

- Allowing someone unqualified and chosen by a minority of the voters to reshape our judiciary with corrupt and illegitimate people who’ve no problem taking people’s freedoms away, and pregnant women dying, elected officials trying to overrule their constituents and hide data on the deaths of pregnant women over the loss of their freedoms; while the same one let hundreds of thousands of Americans just die in an epic mishandling of a deadly pandemic and inciting insurrection in protest of an election he knew he lost, but his ego was too large to publicly admit. One of his co-branches of government acquitted him despite admitting his guilt, while cla court system failed to hold him accountable over insurrection, failed to sentence him over his convicted felonies and dismissed a case against him in which he knowingly kept top secret documents which weren’t his.

And despite all of this, and Presidential historians ranking him the worst of all time, 76 million people decided they wanted more because, ‘the price of eggs,’ was too much, while all too happy to pay more in tariffs, as holiday travel and shopping increased this year. And as a result that so many couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a person of color, they’ll give the opportunity for the felon to do even more damage and commit who knows what kind of crimes while he and his billionaire buddies pillage the country for their own benefit starting in January.

Well, those are my top five greatest moral failures in this country’s history. What are yours?

[peregrinus]

1. Native American genocide

Tops the list

[SamKnause]

2. Native American genicide.

That seems to be rather hard to forget.

It should top the list.

[raging moderate]

3. Native American genocide.

Yes! this tops the list.

[2naSalit]

4. Native American genocide

The original sin.

[Jit423]

5. Native American Genocide, Slavery, Jim Crow-Segregation, Viet Nam, Trump

In that order!

[Lonestarblue]

6. My list is longer.

Native American genocide

Slavery

Abduction and indoctrination and persecution of Native American children to force Christianity and white culture on them

Refusal to honor Native American treaties

Segregation and Jim Crow

Refusal to allow equal rights and civil rights for women

Japanese internment camps

1952 CIA overthrow of democratically elected government of Iran followed by establishing brutal Shah of Iran as leader

Secret agreement for Nixon to extend Vietnam War to get elected at cost of thousands more US deaths

Secret agreement by Reagan to keep hostages detained longer to help defeat Carter

Refusal by Bush administration to take warnings of potential attack before 9/11 seriously and subsequent lying about Iraq and war

Re-election of Trump as a known criminal, sexual assaulter and rapist as president to be the moral role model for the nation’s children

[EnergizedLib]

8. And you probably could've listed others, too

It’s not easy listing just five, is it?

[Popish]

7. Native American Genocide

Before the United States was fully formed, and throughout its expansion, the government and settlers committed acts of genocide, forced displacement, and cultural destruction against Indigenous nations. Policies like the Trail of Tears, the massacre at Wounded Knee, and the systematic violation of treaties stand as some of the gravest moral failures in U.S. history.

[CTyankee]

10. Where do you place the Alamo (if you do at all)?

[thomski64]

12. .okay, add the 1846 war to sieze..

...territory from Mexico,so that slavery could be continued in Texas...

[CTyankee]

14. There needs to be a national understanding of that. As a 3rd generatiion Texan, I used to hear all that shit about the

Alamo, but have since been educated as to the real reason for the battle, which was essentially about slavery, just as you say in your post. As recently as a month ago, an acquaintance of mine went there, while on a business trip to San Antonio. He didn't get the real story so as a young guy from CT who knew nothing about the Alamo, he gets the same old shit I did over 70 years ago.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. Welcome to DU

[rampartd]

9. indian removal

[Picaro]

11. Native American genocide

This was our original sin. Genocide and dispossession. After that the attempts to erase the native cultures.

We are wealthy in moral failures.