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rpannier

(24,328 posts)
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 09:03 PM Sep 2020

I don't think FDR, Truman or Churchill liked Stalin that much

From everything I've ever read FDR, Truman and Churchill didn't like Stalin and they didn't trust him. They were not friends.
But, the larger picture was beating the Fascists (Hitler, Mussolini) in Europe and Asia (Japan)
Stalin was an ally. That is all he was.
Victory demanded that they tolerate and work with the Soviets (and vice versa)
I've run into and read about people who voted for Trump in 2016, that now, have decided they are voting against him and will vote Biden in 2020.
I know full well that most of these people will return to being the Republicans that they were in the 2000s and early 2010s; people who held their love of small government and policies that blamed the poor for societies problems.
Maybe they won't be that way and I'll be wrong (happily wrong)
But, I'll deal with whatever when it happens.
First, the goal is to get il douche out of office and their vote is necessary, and their active support is too.
People who voted Trump in 2016 speak the language of former and current Trump supporters, "He was a businessman," and "He was going to shake things up," and whatever else.
I know some of these people, and they are much better at talking to il douche supporters who are on the fence than people (Republican or Democrat) who voted for Clinton are (sorry, but it's true)
If FDR, Truman and Churchill can make nice with Stalin for 5 years, I can make nice with Kasich and that crowd for two more months

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