Today in Labor History January 23, 1941: Charles Lindbergh testified before the U.S. Congress, recommending that the U.S. negotiate a neutrality pact with Hitler. Many suspected that Lindbergh was a Nazi sympathizer, based on his speeches and writings on race, religion and eugenics, and his glorification of Hitler’s “methods.” President Roosevelt told Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, "If I should die tomorrow, I want you to know this, I am absolutely convinced Lindbergh is a Nazi." Elon Musk is not, of course, the first U.S. political figure to give the Nazi salute. In the accompanying photograph, you can see Senator Burton Wheeler making the Nazi salute alongside Charles Lindbergh.
There will always be rats and scabs who side with their oppressors in hopes of winning a few more crumbs, or a few less beatings, than their peers who resist. But the politicians, whether Democrat or Republican, ultimately serve the same interests: the financial elite, not the working class. And no matter how odious they might find Trump’s language, behavior, and actions, in their calculations it better serves their interests to side with him, than it is does to piss him off.
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