You are correct in acknowledging Both Parties are farther to the Left than JFK & Martin Luther King Jr. based on their 2 famous speeches. JFK's inaugural speech, & Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech spoke of being productive & character. They never advanced people being entitled.
Democrat or Color has nothing to do with it. Ronald Reagan was not a "spender" like Obama and didn't want to change America to something else, like Obama said himself. Reagan was patriotic and believed in The Constitution.
Obama is neither. So comparing the two is like oil and water. They don't mix.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.