I've run across the notion that had he lived a bit longer, Zachary Taylor could have finessed the whole slavery issue and prevented the war.

Only a Sith thinks in absolutes.

By now? All of them!

"Hare Zeus Hare Zeus Zeus Zeus Hare Hare…"

Away with thee, thou insufferable snowflake!

And hurl his bubble gum onto the sidewalk without either wrapping it up again, or throwing it in the trash bin.

But the Native Peoples committed many human rights abuses.

Then Mike would never have run off to the nudist colony, but gone to work for Archie at his new bar. And what's-her-name the Jewish girl would have been adopted by somebody else. (Possibly Mike and Gloria, possibly the Jeffersons.) The divorce would probably still have happened, though.

(4) What if Galactus joined the X-Men?

"I've seen that symbol somewhere before."

And yet, if you ask them if they love America, or support our troops, they will likely give a conflicting answer. In fact they might not even see any contradiction.

To make the analogy work, you'd have to imagine that Hitler was really pro-Jewish, but only joined the war out of loyalty to his country. Then he surrendered, and ordered his followers to cooperate with the occupiers, for the sake of long-term peace.

Being drafted was the motivation for many.

Then we'd be hearing about decolonialism.

I saw Tibetans flying the CSA battle flag in India for Tibetan National Day, right next to their own flag. They even had a little fife and drum band playing "Dixie."

The Dwarves control Middle-Earth finance. In fact they probably started the war.

Or an alternate timeline where magic is real and people have wings.

Because babies are born already rich or poor, with or without certain rights.

So Plato was evil?

A lot of our popular image of the Confederacy has come to us through the lens of 1960s controversies over segregation and states' rights. (That's when racists started flying the CSA battle flag.) If the CSA had endured somehow, it would probably be very different than we're imagining. Possibly even no pickup trucks!