Probably had a little to do with the tech bubble and the Nafta globalist outsourcing upsurge under his watch, not to mention his ratcheting up tensions in the Middle East and bombing Iraq on average of once every 3 days. Bush jr was Clinton on steroids and Hussein has been more of the same. In short, America has eviscerated it's productive sector via globalism and mass immigration, and mortgaged the future via trillion dollar wars on the credit card and impossibly expansive entitlements, and all of this has been bipartisan.
It deteriorated under Bush, but Obama has turned it around. It takes a long time because of how badly Bush did.
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.