The likely result is that even fewer people would make (quasi-)informed voting choices than with the current system. Party affiliation can tell voters what the overall viewpoint and perspective is of the candidate is most likely to be on most of the differentiators that people care about - right to life aka reproductive choice, taxation, separation of church and state, death penalty, etc. Obviously this is not going to always be accurate, but it has a reasonably high level of correlation with party affiliation.As for incumbency, it allows voters to keep in office folks that have note riled them, or to kick out the bums who have, even if they don't happen to recall all the names of incumbents at the moment they make their ballot choices.
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.