The analogy, like all analogies, only goes so far. Because the European citizens in WWII had no choice in the matter–they had war forced upon them.
But consider the Americans and Canadians (among others) who made the policy decision to join the war and later invade the Continent even thought they were under no immediate threat themselves.
They sacrificed tens of thousands of lives and incredible sums of money to fight fascism across the ocean. What would it had looked like if they had not “put up with it”? Not good, I’d say.
They were called “The Greatest Generation”. What will today’s selfish science-deniers be known as?
Ooooh! It could be a whole separate thread just coming up with disparaging names for the knuckle-draggers that are killing people.