Silly Me - I thought the NORTH Won the Civil War

For thousands of years, the objective in war was to get the enemy’s flag – and destroy it. Capture the flag, and it's all over. Even today, winning a war means the enemy’s flag is history. Germany and Japan both had to change their flags after World War II.

Yet in the United States, it is somehow not considered treason to fly the confederate flag of the defeated secessionists. It is available everywhere, on all kinds of products, and was even baked into state flags. It is preferred by the alt-right over the American flag.

Nor it seems, was it a problem to cast 700 statues to rebel soldiers, using taxpayer money, on public property. This is bizarre. A victorious nation does not permit the vanquished to celebrate their loss. The end of the war is supposed to mean reconciliation and going forward together in a new or renewed nation. You forget the past and move on.

How is it even possible the USA permits statues and flags to taunt the nation with an old war it won nearly 200 years ago?

Is this not treason in the USA?

Discuss.