Don’t canonize the World War Two
generation. They were indeed great, and
we owe much to them, but they had great faults too. They accepted, largely without question,
environmental damage in return for apparent economic prosperity. They created
the CIA. They passed the National
Security Act. They wittingly and unwittingly embraced, without much remorse,
all the gross excesses of anti-communism.
At the height of their voting power, they welcomed (albeit without
always realizing it) an economic and political ideology that would end up
gutting the middle class.
I'm glad someone said this! I've always thought that they went out and saved the world and then came home and let the country go to hell. Maybe that's over stating it, but as you've pointed out they let a lot of terrible things happen on their watch.
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