My country has had a civil war, invasions by the french, by the spanish, more recently a revolution that threw a fascist government, followed by a very colourful period of internal squirmishes between anti-regime forces, but we settled those events and that was that: off to the history books.
What motivates so many people to re-enact battles from the American Civil War?
It sounds cruel. Re-enacting a war where so many died gruesome deaths.
We didn’t fucking hang the traitors who instigated the war and we gave them back their land and power so they have been running a propaganda campaign this entire fucking time.
Reenactors are history nerd larpers no shame on them but the obsession in general around it is manufactured to divide us again.
We didn’t kill off enough Nazis in WWII, we didn’t kill off enough confederates in the civil war, and as a result they’re practically running the world now.