re: #49 Hecuba’s daughter

Of course, given our institutional racism and misogyny back then, our refusal to help those fleeing Nazi Germany, and too much of our press Nazi-friendly, we may not have seemed up to the role then either.

“May not have seemed”… no. We definitely WERE. NOT. up to the role.

The isolationist faction in the Senate (aka the people who wanted Germany to win) had the upper hand. FDR wanted to get into the war, and the Senate wouldn’t agree. The Bund (those people who threw the Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden) were way better organized, and had way more public support, than the people who opposed them. Lindbergh was like the 1930’s LeBron, huge hero, total Nazi. The Nazis had agents all over America working to prepare for their eventual (after the European continent, then the UK) plan to attack/occupy US.

We should be sadly grateful that Japan bombing Pearl Harbor (and the next day, the German Ambassador marching up to the State Department with a formal declaration of war done up in beautiful calligraphy) got the American people off their asses.