[Locomotive Breath]

It was the last war we definitively won and as a nation stood united behind.

The American left (oxymoron alert - the left is unAmerican) supported WW II because the U.S. was allied with Stalin and the Soviet Union. They wanted the U.S. to be next commie conquest. These days I feel they might be on the threshold of achieving their goal.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

as a nation stood united behind

 

Mostly - but not completely. Check out the editorial sections of the newspapers of the time, where the op-eds and letters to the editor are, particularly in the urban metro areas. All sorts of grousing about sending our boys off to die, what are we doing in Europe and all that. Hardly a nickel's worth of difference between those and our present-day leftists. There's always been a "red" and "blue" America, just without the nasty balkanization we have now.