I don’t know about generations. My dad hated FDR, Kennedy, Carter. Glad he made it to see Reagan.
My mom outlived him by 22 years. She only watched the MSM evening news. She loved FDR (”Well - he won WWII and got us out of the Depression”) And I learned to keep my mouth shut (mostly) about obama (”Well - he’s doing the best he can.”)
And I know lots of young people signed up for the military post 9/11 and patriotism took a turn there for awhile. But yes - it was easy for most of us to go back to our TV and buying crap at the stores while our guys were spending hard years in Iraq and Afghanistan.
While those wars in no way compare to WWII, it has amazed me how much coverage WWII got in the papers of the day. Before Germany was beat it would be the first 12 to 14 pages of the paper JUST on war news.
It seemed that after a year in Iraq there was a small article on page 4 of the paper about the war.
We are still in this damned sand box, and more people are killed here every day. Jesus wept. The dead are not Americans so much, so they don’t rate even the fourth page anymore. I don’t think even FDR would sit by and watch were he alive today, but I can’t tell you for sure.
We opened the gates of hell and walked away. No one noticed...
I have an extraordinary distaste for FDR, he gave us Social Security, and big government as we now see it. His administrations were riddled with Soviet spies, and both he and Harry Truman thought it was more important to not have anything bad said, than it was to ensure our national security was secure.
And never mind Eleanor Roosevelt, that communist, socialist scum.
But I find it difficult to condemn any of them for supporting him...things were different back then.
My dad was a democrat when he held office in local government, but he simply did it because running as a Republican in Massachusetts in the Seventies was not viable in nearly all locations.
He was a plank owner in Citizens for Limited Taxation, which tells you all you need to know about him.