Thursday, March 1, 2012

A Nazi in the White House

           Imagine if FDR was defeated by the paranoid isolationist Charles Lindbergh in his 1940 bid for the Oval Office.  Yes, I’m talking about the “Spirit of St. Louis” American hero Charles Lindbergh.  Now imagine if Lindbergh, riding high on all the glory from his flight and new found political power, came to an “understanding” with Hitler at a discreet meeting in Iceland.  As you can imagine, this ominous “understanding” most certainly would have concerned the fate of the world’s Jews.  Never mind that just two years prior in October of 1938, Lindbergh proudly received the Service Cross of the German Eagle, a gold medallion featuring four small swastikas directly “by order of the Fuhrer.”  It’s no surprise that Lindbergh once wrote of Hitler, “He is undoubtedly a good man.”    
Fact and fiction blur in Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth’s historical fiction novel, The Plot Against America.  In a Lindberg administration, anti-semitism builds to a point where Kristallnacht type destruction and frequent pogroms are commonplace and where Walter Winchell gets assassinated along the campaign trail on his own personal bid for the White House.  In Lindbergh’s America, multiple unenthusiastic law enforcement agencies have to collaborate and plot on how to protect America’s Jews from rampaging hordes bent on their destruction.  The big question is, “Will Lindbergh consent to build concentration camps in the USA?
I don’t want to ruin the end of the book for you.  Roth weaves through his story many important characters of the time including Henry Ford, NYC Congressman Fiorello H. La Guardia, J Edgar Hoover, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, and a number of high ranking Nazi officials.  There are even bios of many true life characters to help put events into conte
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Remember, “The Plot Against America” is not Lindbergh’s evil attempt to control, suppress, and possibly destroy the Jews’ destiny.  No, no, that would be too easy.  “The Plot Against America” is the secret blood sucking networked system the Jews came up with, through their pervasive control of banking and media institutions, to usurp control of nothing less than the entire United States government.  That’s the real plot these greedy bastards have planned for us.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you.