Ahhh, many an argument with my folks who were born right before depression. Always about "how FDR saved us from the depression and WW2." To which I always replied...WW2 saved us from depression. Also had to point out how much commie poop was going down under FDR and how he tried stacking the court, etc, etc. That all his programs were the basis for the welfare state, that had he let capitalism work we'd been out of the depression in much less time than it took. Never sure I won that argument because I didn't live through it.that gen is about gone. in my mind the only reason i will ever vote again is out of respect for them. my parents believed the narrative that they fought under til the very end. they were all pretty much of the same mind and believed they fought for freedom and believed that FDR saved the country during the depression. deep state was alive even back then and had the story hard wired.