If you're not familiar with it, The Plot Against America is an alternative history where Charles Lindbergh is president instead of Roosevelt's third term and keeps the US out of WW2. It's worth watching if you can download/stream it, so maybe do that first if you don't want spoilers

spoilers from here on out

They make a lot of interesting choices that I'm curious how possible/popular they would have actually been. Like, I know there was pro-nazi sentiment but I thought it was pretty quickly soured the moment they invaded uhh poland right? 'cause nobody cared about the czech invasion right? idk I forget this stuff.

Also, it's kinda interesting seeing how the anti-communist stuff would have played into supporting a war effort; the US was obviously rabidly anti-communist ever since daddy marx invented it I guess right? but it does get especially weird when you think about pro-nazi sentiment being popular enough to also play into it.

And last; in the last scene, what do you think they are saying with the election tampering stuff? Who was it in favor of?

  • AliceBToklas [she/her]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    It's a TV show but this is the closest comm that wasn't main. It was on Showtime March-April of this year, seems to just be the single limited season thing not an ongoing story with new writing.