Meta-Buffy/America Thought

[butterfly]

"Uh, reconstruction began after the... construction, which was... shoddy, so they had to reconstruct."
Buffy, Angel (S1), on The Reconstruction

Actually, this strikes me as very true, even if Buffy may not have realized it. The construction of America was shoddy -- built on hypocrisy ("Actually, it was Jefferson." "Kept slaves. Remember?" -- Willow and Cordelia, Go Fish (S2)) and thus unstable. The Civil War was a demolition, the tearing down of a compromised structure, and then came the Reconstruction.

Comments

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

the first draft of the DoI had a bit about slavery, but it got edited out. it went along the lines of "thaht bitch george made us get slaves and now we need them dammit so it's totally not wrong to keep them."

[jic]

Uh huh. `_-