Methinks Rush doth protest too much. Alternate history has been very popular in print and on film. Harry Turtledove did a whole series on the South winning and what followed. “C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America” was a movie that was made about 10 years ago. “Fatherland” was a book and a movie that postulated a Nazi win. “Red Dawn” theorized a war between the U.S. and Russia/Cuba. There isn’t politics behind this, there’s money.
“There isn’t politics behind this, there’s money.”
Maybe - maybe not.
Let’s see how things are portrayed. For example, if the Democrat Party is somehow listed as the party of freedom, its politics.
I too was thinking of Harry Turtledove’s “Southern Victory” series of novels: How Few Remain, American Front, Walk in Hell, Breakthroughs, Blood and Iron, The Center Cannot Hold, The Victorious Opposition, Return Engagement, Drive to the East, The Grapple, & In at the Death
If you don’t think politics influences everything done in movies and TV, you’re not looking close enough.
I get the idea that Rush is not a fan of uchronia, or does know about it. Seemed a bit overboard.
On the other hand Rush has mentioned several times that we fought a civil war and one of the results was the ending of slavery. Rush seems to think this was really great. I think it is rather humiliating that slavery could not have been ended by some other means.