You are correct. The GOP is like a cult. As we saw in the Bush/CHENEY administration, they will stop at nothing to get what they want, for example, starting a war in Iraq so that profiteers, like Halliburton, could prosper.
These top GOP politicians operate like 'operatives' rather than elected officials.
Its because they smell money to be made by privatizing everything. And they enlist the right wing loons with contraception nonsense.
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.