07-17-2018, 01:09 PM
(07-17-2018, 11:09 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Israel probably meddled more than Russia. We meddle in the elections of other countries as well. While I get the outrage over the DNC hack, as these actions are rarely so overt, this kind of thing goes on all the time. Didn't we recently get lambasted for tapping into Merkel's private phone calls? As for Clinton, I'd say it was less baggage than toxic name recognition.
That's baggage, though. That toxic name recognition is a result of all of the baggage. Being who she is comes with the baggage of being neo-liberal, elitist, establishment, technocratic, and moving the party to the center. It is what is turning a lot of voters off, right now. I know when I say baggage the first thing that comes to mind are the bullshit attempts by congressional Republicans to take her down, but that is only part of it.
As for the meddling specifically, I don't want our country doing it, I don't want others doing it to us. It is a threat to democracy when things like this occur and if we truly want to foster democracy around the world then we need to let the people of other nations express their rights to govern themselves. Unfortunately, the corporatocracy seeks to gain power all over the world and so it uses the power they have gained already to influence others.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
