I hate how history books refer to things like the “patronage system” or “spoils system” as if they’re legitimate systems and not just open corruption.
I guess it ties into my general hatred of how history textbooks tend to treat history as a bunch of isolated facts to be memorized rather than trying to connect the dots in an insightful way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker
The link is one of the major reasons for reform against things like that. Teddy Roosevelt spearheaded the whole reform
Ohhhh I get it. The guy hated the stress of Mondays, so he killed Prez Garfield, who is later reincarnated as Garfield the cat who now hates Mondays because they remind him of his assassination.
So what you’re saying is political assassination works
Direct action gets the goods
Still seems to work that way.
this is why Garfield hates mondays
Oh that’s a huge over simplification on why the guy shot Garfield. Dude was literally insane.
Yeah, totally worth reading about Guiteau because he was crazy on an amazing level.
For those like me who lack the attention span to read about it Sam O’Nella did a video about it
Charles Gitout lmaooo