What happened to "the Greatest Generation" post war was that THEY BECAME the most liberal generation in modern history up to that point.
Go back and do the research every destructive step in the social/cultural decay of this country that has been attributed to the rise of the "Baby Boomers," and you'll find that almost every one of them was carried out by the prior generation, not them.
Most of the post-war population believed that the government would solve all the world’s problems the same way it defeated the Axis powers.
They weren’t privy to all the blundering that went on behind the scenes that caused countless disasters.