It all comes down to the crazy GOP trying anything they can do to get an edge. Research Fox News and Karl Rove's propaganda machine. Their tactics still work today on some, but less and less everyday are buying into it.
If you get the chance to watch the documentary Bush's Brain, do so. It will explain a lot of what's going on. You might find it on Youtube.
Republicans are simple people who tend to revere racist qualities and other undesirable traits such as superstitious beliefs in fantasies that in one way or another should be behaviorally modified and eliminated since they are a public nuisance. We should not tolerate the intolerable while we work towards our new world order of social justice.
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.