11-13-2017, 01:09 PM
(11-13-2017, 12:57 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: No it isn’t.
Yes, yes it is. A foreign government attempting to influence the democratic process of another country in any way is an attack on their sovereignty.
(11-13-2017, 12:57 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Altering votes is an attack on our sovereignty. All that was done was DNC and Podesta emails were released to just confirm what everyone thought about Clinton and the dems anyway..... they were corrupt.
That is not all that was done, as I have already explained.
(11-13-2017, 12:57 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Should we be concerned about this? Yes. But beyond the dnc and John Podesta getting some cyber security there isn’t much to any of this....
Actually, there is plenty to do about this. For example, sanctions to that they don't get away with it. Or maybe finding out who in the US with knowledge and understanding of our electoral process assisted them in their targeting because out intelligence indicates that they did not have a sophisticated enough understanding of the process prior to this election cycle. Lots to be done in the wake of what happened.
(11-13-2017, 12:57 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Trying to play this up is just more nonsense. Obama targeted Bibi during his election by finding and supporting his opponent. Obama also tapped the phones of Angela Merkel and her staff. None of these things makes the Russian’s role acceptable, but it does show that this stuff is common and should just be taken as such.
I'm not okay with outside influences into the democratic process, I never will be. A republic exists as a representative democracy wherein the citizens are the rulers. That is how our government is supposed to work. When a foreign government intervenes in the process by which our citizens have a voice in choosing the representatives in our government, then that breaks down our government. It takes away the voices of citizens. An informed electorate is imperative to the continuation of our republic and the method by which Russian intelligence manipulated the public during the 2016 election cycle shows how easily the process can be corrupted. Misinformation, especially targeted in such a sophisticated way, is a threat to our democracy.
