Mencken would agree that there was an enormous difference between what Lincoln said and what he did. Spielberg may gun down Abraham Lincoln as a hero, but he might in exchange give us a more human and honest Lincoln. This may foment more racial anger and division. The surprising thing to me is that Spielberg and Goodwin worship Big Government. It was not by accident that American Marxists fighting on the Communist side in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s called themselves the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
History is written and edited by the winners.
For 136 years those winners have taught our children that Abraham Lincoln was God s chosen means of ending and exacting in blood the karmic price for the sin and evil of slavery. The man widely regarded as our greatest living filmmaker intends to squeeze those grapes of wrath again, to reveal the Lincoln beneath the golden idol, and to help America come to terms with its still-unhealed deepest wound in a new way. He hopes to begin filming this fall. I pray that Steven Spielberg is divinely guided. With this movie he could do great good, or great harm.