My GrandDad would be sad too, how the USA has evolved.
I was born in 1951 and I think you and I are about the same age because we have similar memories.
How the USA has DEvolved, actually, Mom and GrandMom can't sew clothes for the family because they have to work just to make ends meet. There's a reason why just about the same time the democrat fascist party started preaching the "post industrial society" that they began preaching "women should be liberated to work out of the home" as well. They knew that they cost of living would go up and the standard of living would go down as the country industrialized but they also knew that a second income would serve to hide the rate of decline for a good many years.
Give fascists majority control in a democracy for sixty years and all you can expect is a fascist government no matter what they chose to call themselves. I've been laughing for years and years at how the "left" in this country has managed to call everyone else Nazi while actually being exactly like the pre-WWII Nazi party in Germany. People who are so stupid and lazy that they don't recognize reality until it's too late deserve exactly what they vote for.
The democrat party is now and always has been the party of slavery, sedition, treason, secession, civil war, KKK terrorism, Jim Crow laws, eugenics laws, constant voter fraud, constant voter intimidation, anti-Semitic immigration restrictions (in response to Nazi Nuremberg laws), advocates of titles of nobility for protected classes of citizens who are above the law, creators of anti-Christian mythology, creators of the welfare plantation system, advocates of infanticide and euthanasia as well as being the party that designed, implemented, and fights to lavishly fund the systematic, eugenics driven, mass murder of minority infants. The democrat party has to be so thoroughly destroyed as a national political party that it is no longer a factor in national politics. Refusing to support less than pure alternatives over a pet peeve, sitting out elections, or doing anything that keeps you from helping or influences others to not help rid ourselves of these parasites while we're force fed democrat arsenic, is either deliberate democrat supporting fifth column activity or your personal agreement that we should commit national suicide. The entire democrat machine, including both government employee unions and the democrat academic rewards and propaganda infrastructure needs to be fought until, to paraphrase Bull Halsey, " ... democrat is only spoken in hell".