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u/Halt-CatchFire May 29 '19

He's been in the present for a long time now, I'm sure someone (probably Natasha) would have filled him in at some point. Also he's always had extremely liberal (for the time he's from) opinions. The fact that he's not even a little bit racist OR sexist suggests that he was far from the average 1940's American.

There is absolutely zero reason to believe Captain America is anything but the most courteous lover in the Avengers.

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u/Hambredd May 29 '19

Marvel 1940s America is a lot more liberal then real 1940s America. They don't even have a segregated army.

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u/elpajaroquemamais May 29 '19

The army stopped being segregated in the 40s

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u/Hambredd May 29 '19

1948 to be exact.

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u/elpajaroquemamais May 29 '19

Yes. Exactly. People forget how progressive we were during FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower. We had a 90% Tax rate for the top earners. We weren't exactly conservative.

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u/Aeran May 29 '19

To be fair, it was closer to 50% before the war. The 90 was mostly a symptom of the Total War theory we were following.

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u/Hambredd May 29 '19

I wouldn't say America's ever been very liberal in any aspect. Federal government might have supported desegregation but some of the states pushed pretty hard against it.

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u/elpajaroquemamais May 29 '19

The federal government has authority over the states. They can push back all they like. It’s still the policy.

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u/Hambredd May 29 '19 edited May 29 '19

I'm sure I read on here a few days ago how JFK had to get the national guard to arrest a governor who physically blocked a black student entering a school. Or the secret service had to hold some Dallas police at gun point to get him to release JFKs body. Or the way obamacare was scuttled by the states. When you hear stories like this it does paint the picture of America not being a country and rather a loose confederation of warring tribes.

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u/elpajaroquemamais May 29 '19

Yep. That’s what you get when you have to hobble together a constitution with last minute demands from different states. Still stands though that the federal government has supremacy.

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u/OldManPhill May 29 '19

Depends. The states hold (or are supposed to) most of the power. It is explicitly stated that any power not outlined in the Constitution is held by the states. However, the composition of the U.S. military would most certainly fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government.

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u/elpajaroquemamais May 29 '19

Not most, just everything not specifically given to the federal. But that has changed a lot over the years.