<< Something which is always overlooked about the great public support for WWII is that the left was firmly agitated against US involvement until on specific event. The invasion of the USSR.
When Hitler started rolling a hundred miles a day toward Moscow, and hundreds of thousands of Soviets had been captured, the communists sent out directives to get the US involved. The communists (leftists, progressives, fellow travelers) turned from devout pacifists to raging warmongers over night. However, their loyalty was never to the United States. >>
Absolutely True!
And the self-annointed, self-appointed and self-perpetuating bastard offspring of the Communist Party of America/Alger Hiss et al fronted State Department brahmamas that engineered that turnabout [In support of its Soviet masters] has ever since cloned itself and is a live and well at Foggy Bottom and in "our" Foreign Service.
When Hitler started rolling a hundred miles a day toward Moscow, and hundreds of thousands of Soviets had been captured, the communists sent out directives to get the US involved. The communists (leftists, progressives, fellow travelers) turned from devout pacifists to raging warmongers over night. However, their loyalty was never to the United States.
Overlooked by many, yes, but not by me. This is a point I'm always fond of making - a "good war" is one where we were doing Uncle Joe's, the friendly Bolshevik's, bidding.
Another delicious irony. The great Woody Guthrie was famous for having the inscription "This machine kills fascists" prominently displayed on his guitar.
That is until the day the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed. Then the inscription quickly disappeared.
Lenin was not kidding around when he coined the phrase "useful idiots" - he hit the nail right on the hairy, smelly head!