This time on Tony's Political Ramblings, we start 2022 with a cautionary tale on historical revisionism, extremism and radicalization.
References:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/11/01/psychology-how-someone-becomes-radicalized/
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RBA1071-1.html
https://news.gsu.edu/research-magazine/rewriting-history-civil-war-textbooks
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/united-daughters-of-the-confederacy/
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/lost-cause-the/
https://sites.uw.edu/magastudy/
https://theweek.com/us/1001987/men-losing-close-friends
https://www.start.umd.edu/pubs/STARTPIRUSUseOfSocialMediaByUSExtremistsResearchBriefJuly2018.pdf