We won it because we "won" the right to support the rest of the world and have our own country flooded with European socialism and sleaze?
All the things Freepers like to hate today, can be traced back to World War II.
You don't like globalism? The United States "won" the right to support West Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, the United Nations, and more than half the other countries around the world. Does that sound like Victory to you? Because it sounds a lot like a defeat to me. And only three those countries were ever grateful to the war. At most. You should only count that as a victory if you think the United States should support all these countries and get almost nothing for it.
And all they social issues you might hate, and the revising of the Constitution? Where did all that come from? It came from Europe at the end of World War II.
You can use Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead in 1948 as a jumping off point.
I love this country, but I can't help but see how WWII womped us good.
There is that little matter of the fact that the American Communist Party was founded in 1919, not a whole lot long after the Soviet Communist Party in 1912
Socialists and communists had been active n America long before WWII
“All the things Freepers like to hate today, can be traced back to World War II.”
Absolutely untrue. Ideas influenced by European style socialism began coming to the United States long before that. Few American universities granted PHD degrees in the late 1900s and early twentieth century so Americans went to Europe, particularly Germany, to earn them. That’s where the rot began.
The Frankfurt School became influential long before WWII. Marxist agitators were common in the US right after WWI. It got so bad that people like Emma Goldstein got deported.