: The official line of the American left flipped instantly from isolationism to a fierce demand for American intervention to defeat fascism.
: In August 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact. Plow Under (Original Mix)
The "AAA" referenced in the lyrics is the Agricultural Adjustment Act, a major New Deal program introduced by the Roosevelt administration to combat the Great Depression. To raise the plummeting prices of crops and livestock, the government paid farmers to reduce supply, which famously resulted in the slaughter of millions of pigs and the plowing under of vast fields of cotton. The Human Cost : The official line of the American left