I see you’re starting to build up a little tolerance, as America was for conquest. Yes, congress was torn between completely taking over our southern neighbor or just accepting the concessions won from war.

They would have pushed for total conquest if not for the “fatal error” of Mexico

“placing the colored race on an equality with the white”

who was that jackass?

Former vice president.

Yeah, when racism supports your entire economic outlook it becomes somewhat of an institution externally and internally, to the point that it’s wrapped up in your very identity.

If money and power are addictive, then it would stand to reason that the

hate that defends accumulation

would also be addictive.

The imperialist’s suspicion of equitable societies can overcome even their own greed.

My question for context would be, why would the profiteers of our current economic disparity act differently in

challenging their biases?

Or as another novelist would say in the following century:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on not understanding it.”