I don't get it

[Dill]

(03-22-2017, 09:42 AM)Matt_Crimson Wrote: I find it ironic that people who hate Trump accused him of fear mongering about ISIS as a way to get his travel ban pushed, yet here they are fear mongering about the big bad Russian guys that will infiltrate our democracy and destroy it by releasing information about the DNC scandal. Now, I'm not saying that the Russians don't have any ill will toward us whatsoever. I'm not even saying that the Russians don't want to increase their influence around the world considering we want the same thing. What I'm saying, is that all this Russian fear mongering of them destroying our democracy through the release of hacked emails is a bunch of over-exaggerated hooey when we are doing far more to destroy our own democracy through our own media and political attacks against one another. It's not like Russia conjured up and meticulously planned out and initiated some story about the DNC cheating its way to the elections. THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Not because the Russians made it up, but because we, the Americans did it ourselves. But lets not talk about our self inflicting nature as Americans which is far more damaging than anything Russia has done. Lets just talk about how Vladmir Putin is possibly the antichrist ushering in the end of days. To me it's fear mongering to avoid our own faults.

But the Russian interference ACTUALLY HAPPENED as well, didn't it?  One can grant that Americans were "destroying themselves" or whatever, and still see this as a serious threat, can't one? 

It's like a foreign bank broke into your hometown bank where your savings are, maybe with complicity of one of your bank officers, in order to disrupt your banks services to improve theirs, but you are saying the relation of all your banks officers to each other was already dysfunctional, so it's laughable to worry about a break in when the bank officers were already damaging the bank themselves?