The truth about the Civil War's cause in 2 sentences and relating it to today's political landscape

1: The civil war was about 400 families of rich, conservative slave-owners convincing the poor to fight and die in order to protect property that robbed the poor of wage paying jobs. The poor were dying for a cause that really didn't affect them but media like Cannibals All by George Fitzhugh and provocateurs like John C. Calhoun made them believe some dangerous force was out there going to take what little they had.

2: The potential civil war brewing is about 400 families of rich, conservative wage slave-owners convincing the poor to fight and kill in order to protect a system that has robbed the poor of wage paying jobs. The poor are now supporting a cause that really doesn't affect them but media like (pick any RW media medium) and provocateurs like (pick any right wing carnival barker) made them believe some dangerous force was out there going to take what little they had.

See, whatever your name was with Charlie Kirk bashing social studies in schools, this is the skill set social studies teachers like me teach to our students. Cause-Effect. Causation over Time. Relations between past and current events. We outfit our students with a metronome called a Bullshit Detector and tell them when it swings faster, you're listening to bullshit.

As George Carlin said: “Kids have to be warned that there's bullshit coming down the road. That's the biggest thing you can do for a kid. Tell them what life in this country is about [...] a whole lot of bullshit that needs to be detected and avoided.”