What does a conservative want?

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How do you expect lunatics to defend themselves?

[quote="Kraichgauer"][quote="ruveyn"][quote="Kraichgauer"]

From the Civil War and Reconstruction class I had taken in my college days, actually most of the so called carpet baggers were dedicated to the cause of helping the newly freed slaves, and more often than not were the victims of violence at the hands of night riders and the early KKK. While there were actually corrupt so called carpet baggers in charge of the reconstruction governments in the southern states, they were in truth no more corrupt than the antebellum or Confederate governments, and a lot less corrupt than the so called redeemed state governments after Reconstruction
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer[


I'm just going on what little I remember from school and an old text book,so you are most surely better informed than I.
It does say;

The name carpetbagger was given to practically everyone who came into the state to profit from Reconstruction,but many were honest and came to be good citizens.It was the dishonest politicians who made the term carpetbagger hateful.


It does go on to talk about the Freedman's Bureau doing a lot of good in the state but the text book does have a definite slant against the Union League that is not in the later text books I used.





Governor Clayton opposed the Klan in Ark. and proclaimed martial law,he declared that the Klan was committing lawless acts and blaming them on the freed slaves.
Clayton realized that people,both Democrats and Republicans were displeased at the corruption of the state government.Money had been raised for courthouses,jails,levees and railroads that were never built.Corrupt politicians lining their pockets.(nothing new about that.)
The Republican party in Ark. also excluded ex-Confederates from voting but the freed slaves were given the right to vote.This probably caused some hard feelings.

I don't remember my text books bashing the North,but there were lots of political cartoons in them portraying carpetbaggers and scalawags in a not so nice way.

But war is hell

Edited because I really made a bumble posting this,bad computer skills.

The Constitution doesn't offer an exception for lunatics.

Didn't the Gipper cut mental health funding and toss a bunch of people on the street that may have needed mental health services??

What I was thinking is that present day conservatives(some,not all) have followed the Gippers lead in slashing funding for the mental health services.
If you fall thru the cracks and make too much money for Medicaid to help you,and you can't afford insurance,you most likely can not afford a Psychiatrist or counseling,or the medication.
My shrink would like me to do some tests but Medicaid does not want to cover them,I can't afford them on my own.
Many people need services but cannot get them,the mental health of a nation should be important.Happy people are more productive,they show up for work,they do a good job and they don't go on a shooting spree killing their employer and colleagues.