The Great American Side Show by Dr. Seuss
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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My boyfriend has a lot of his old prints. I never knew he was as political as he was….but his political works and his take on overall society are pretty spot on
“When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross”.
–Sinclair Lewis
“And I’m gonna tell you workers, ‘fore you cash in your checks
They say “America First, ” but they mean “America Next!”
In Washington, Washington”
-Woody Guthrie
They say America First, but they mean America next
Dr. Seuss would be somewhat of a subject matter expert on this one.
There was a version of this character in the 1950’s live-action Dr. Seuss film, “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T”. They were wearing roller-skates instead of swastikas, but they were still conjoined at the beard.
I still can’t believe people were surprised at Elons Sieg Heil when “AMERICA FIRST” has been a neo-nazi american slogan for 100 years now!
What year was the cartoon from?
The missing connection is they are both pieces of shit. It’s not very perplexing.
Also [relevant](https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/s/t1bFoORnc5)
Note that America First were isolationists, not Nazi sympathizers – America First disbanded right after the attack on Pearl Harbor and ex-members supported the war effort.
Seuss followed the US government’s line in this propaganda poster, deliberately blurring the difference between America First and the Nazi-supporting German-American Bund.
America First’s most famous member, aviator Charles Lindberg, toured Nazi Germany in 1936 and 1938, hosted by high officials of the Nazi government who were overjoyed at having such a celebrity as their guest. He wasn’t there because he supported their cause, though – he was sent by the US government, on a secret mission to gather intelligence on German military air power developments.
This is one of my favorites from that time, along with Chaplin’s closing monologue in “The Great Dictator.”
I grew up on the Dr. And now i love him even more!
Yeah, but what would the people who lived through it know, right MAGZIs?
The Nazi looks like the grotesque figures of Jews that Nazis drew.
A clear and insightful work that shows Dr. Seuss wasn’t afraid to share his political views.
Humans are so stupid we need to repeat the same mistakes over and over. Where’s an asteroid when you need one?
For those not familiar with the America First movement, Rachel Maddow did a nice podcast about it a few years back, entitled ULTRA.
I would love some of his designs on a shirt. It’s old, but it hits home
Inspired by Seuss
[The Fat Cat in the Red Hat](https://amzn.to/3CrMKjV)
Hell yeah! Seuss is on the loose
Image saved to phone for future use
Maybe we should just have another civil war
time is a flat circle
Incidentally I discovered today that [“America First”]
?ex=67995f5a&is=67980dda&hm=91f931d1b01095e590bdfcb9cb56ef0b86dc6e7c44a9aa41b6f5fe43fcc45efa&=&format=webp&quality=lossless) was the name of a military vehicle (probably a Sherman tank by the look of it) destroyed by the Nazis (probably during the battle of the Bulge, but there can sometimes be a mismatch between documentaries and what they try to illustrate)
Reminder that a tacit, underlying theme of any Nazi agenda is prejudice against homosexuals and that state rights aren’t going anywhere.
Same dude who made a comic about Japanese Americans wanting to bomb the country btw
Didn’t Dr. Seuss cheat on his wife, driving her to suicide, then marry his mistress? Like, I’m glad you found a picture you liked, but Seuss was not a great moral barometer. He was employed to create “US Patriotic Art.” He was a propagandist. For pay. They’d say “Knock up something about such and such, here’s a fifty” and he’d piss off and draw it.
I agree that National Socialism is a real threat!
This is lowkey trump and Elon rn lmao
Don’t forget the zionazis tugging the puppets strings
“jarvis i need karma, post more political slop on r/pics and not the beautiful picture of nature i took a few moments ago”
“Everything I don’t like is Nazism”
Literal military industrial complex propaganda
Was this some kind of self-referential burn considering he was an avid anti-Semite?
https://apnews.com/article/dr-seuss-books-racist-images-d8ed18335c03319d72f443594c174513
More like Dr. Sus.
Whatever helps you liberals sleep at night 🤣🤣