/lit/ - Literature

So I've seen this recommended. The premise Carl Oglesby presents is that among the American elites there is a war between "Yankees" (Basically the Eastern or coastal liberal elites) and "Cowboys" (Descendants of the slaveowners of the South who went West and got rich by oil and later warprofitering).

These groups have a fundamental disagreement over how the US should've fought communism, with the Yankees wanting a more peaceful/economic way (Basically, getting China to open up so that American corporations can do business there) and the Cowboys wanting war (Since they make more money that way).

Things like Watergate and the Kennedy assassination were results of these conflict among elites (Kennedy and Nixon pissed off one side and so they were removed from office).

I've seen people say that it's premise of the Yankee vs Cowboy conflict is sound buts info on the Kennedy assassination is outdated (It's based on Jim Garrison's conspiracy theory, the one used in the Oliver Stone JFK film, and Garrison's theory is now considered wrong even among conspiracy theorists).