I clapped a huge number of times.

For once, I knew one of your revelatory quotes, the Lincoln one.

To be honest, that one in a weird way made me think better of Lincoln, or at least perceive him as a real person who struggled with moral issues but came to the right answers eventually: he went on to do the right thing, because the logic, morals and ethics of Emancipation were irrefutable, not because he was emotionally attached to it.

This was a two-edged sword. This unfortunately this lead him to forgive the Confederacy their crimes in the hope that this would lead to a better American. But instead, the filthy sins of the slavers festered a few inches under the skin, leading to lynchings, Jim Crow and the modern Republicans.

The ideas behind the later Denazification program should have also applied here.

Heck, if every person of pallor below the Mason-Dixon line had been sent to their rightful reward, today we'd be judging Lincoln as a genocidal maniac - from a much better world where perhaps humans would actually be trying to save the planet from destruction rather than killing it.