OK, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, "enough!" This is a website about a motorcycle built in a foreign country, which seventy-nine years ago pulled-off a brazen sneak-attack killing nearly 3,000 American soldiers, and which threw the USA into a war which cost nearly three-hundred thousand American soldiers' lives. At the time, a certain political party was preaching "Isolationism." "It's Europe's problem, if the Chancellor of Germany wants to invade Poland, France, Austria, and the Benelux countries, we don't want to get-involved." The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Neville Chamberlain, proclaimed that Hitler would be satisfied with his conquests to that time, that he would leave the United Kingdom alone, and that we had secured "peace in our time." Then the Blitzkreig against the United Kingdom started, as Germany relied on the von Ribbentropp Pact with Stalin and the USSR to delay any involvement in another war front, a pact which he broke, and invaded Stalin's USSR.
Prior to the beginning of WW II, FDR (that would be Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D)) reading the writing on the wall, began to ramp-up the incredible industrial might of the USA. He began the Lend-Lease program, where he gave Poland, the United Kingdom, Australia, the USSR, and France war material, tooling, and finished products including over 130,000 Harley-Davidson and Indian motorcycles; planes, and ships to prepare for the upcoming conflict. Lend-Lease didn't demand payment before delivery, they
gave the goods to these countries for future payment, because the POTUS realized what had to be done, for our allies to prepare for what was imminent. Of course there were still those isolationists in Congress who tried to prevent the aid from being given. Nevertheless, a total of fifty billion dollars in aid was provided to our allies, payment deferred. Historians believe that without the aid being given when it was that the United Kingdom would have had to sue for peace, and WW II would have ended quickly on the European front. Hitler's expansionist ambitions probably would have re-ignited the war if the U.K. had been able to temporarily-stop the war by suing for peace.
In Asia, Japan pushed quickly across the Pacific Ocean, into mainland China, and southeast Asia, and threatened the northern coast of Australia. The Philippines fell, and General Douglas Macarthur made his famous statement, "I shall return." He did. American and Australian forces fought their way back-across the Pacific, towards Japan, and while the USA was preparing for an invasion of Japan, estimated to soon-cost hundreds of thousands of American soldiers' lives (estimates were up-to one million USA soldiers would die), a B-29 bomber named after the pilot's mother who lived in Miami FL dropped a single bomb on a city which so-far had escaped being bombed by Allied airstrikes. The bomb was the second of its kind, a marvel of physics and intensive engineering, which had only been tested once before, a scant three weeks prior, and the flash of light it produced was able to be seen hundreds of miles away. The destruction it caused was determined to be a success, and two-more explosive devices were prepared and shipped to Tinian island in the Pacific Ocean, at great cost to the Allied war effort
https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/uss-indianapolis . On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima Japan had its second sunrise, as
Little Boy turned Hiroshima into the first atomic target of a populated area. The city had been spared from Allied bombing so that the power of the new weapon could be evaluated.
Three days later a second device using the same principles of physics but a different design, nicknamed
Fat Man and dropped by another B-29, exploded above Nagasaki, its effect was more-destructive than the first bomb. The Emperor of Japan announced that the war was over, even as military leaders assembled the troops for the expected invasion of the Japanese Archipelago. It would have taken weeks for the USA to build and to transport another explosive device, more were "in the pipeline," but time would have-to pass. However, the Emperor had spoken to the country, and WW II was over.
The composition of the US Congress in both houses was majority Democrat, and the POTUS was held by a Democrat from before the start of WW II until after the war was concluded.
The WW II enemy in the Pacific? Thanks to the Marshall Plan and the adoption of ideas like Total Quality Management, Edward Deming's industrial management package, Japan developed an economy where they took-in raw materials, and turned-out goods eagerly-bought by the rest of the world. Our bitter enemy became a valued trading partner, and we have our Generation I and II VMax'es to ride. Thank God for the USA, its industrial might, and its ability to extend helping hands around the world, even when it involves those who a short while before were our enemies.
Harry Truman served as Vice-President under Franklin Roosevelt, and he succeeded him in 1945. It was Truman who saw the surrender of the Third Reich, and the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. It was Truman's decision to use the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was Truman's decision to implement the Marshall Plan, offering a helping hand to our former enemies among others, to rebuild their countries, and to prevent starvation of conquered peoples. Harry Truman was a Democrat. He famously had a sign on his desk, and it read, "
The Buck Stops Here." No blaming the opposition when things happen, no accusing the media of collusion against him, no fictitious "
deep state" working behind the scenes to destroy his work did he bemoan. He once said, "
I could never admire a man whose only interest is himself." Words still appropriate today.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-introduces-the-lend-lease-program
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122591119
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Let's leave politics on the probably thousands of websites where that is the main draw and interest, and spend our time helping each other to appreciate our shared motorcycle of choice, in all the ways that we can all benefit from the collective knowledge we each contribute to make the whole. Avoid the gumption traps, on this forum I believe that politics can-be and is a gumption trap. I think we'll all be happier for it.