I watched this short yesterday, it's a lovely piece. Most of us weren't alive in the 1940s. That wasn't us, it was our grandparents and great grandparents... "the Greatest Generation" of Americans.

We like to take credit for their achievements in WW2 without much thought about the historical context that led to the rise of fascism and tens of millions of deaths in that era.

We're on track to be remembered as the "Worst Generation" if enough Americans turn out to be suckers.

"A nation of suckers"

Fascism is a siren song for the simpleminded. Back then, we were fighting foreign fascist powers that dared to attack us, so it was easy to oppose. Most of the people who remember that are dead though, and new generations of simpletons have taken their place.