GRIZZLY STEPPE: hacking of the American elections of 2016

[Classic-Xer]

(01-03-2017, 03:54 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: If Russia does this in 2016... think of what China can do in 2020. Heck, even India. Don't fool yourself about India. The world's most powerful democracy might prefer having another democratic superpower in the world, one that used to be reliable and would be again if it enjoyed "a new birth of freedom".

A hint: watch for the formation of a Delhi-Jakarta-Tokyo Axis in the event that the USA loses its democracy.

As a Democrat, I do not want that sort of help in ridding us of Donald Trump and a GOP majority in 2020. We need free and fair elections even if we lose them. The essence of democracy is the willingness to lose elections.

I have yet to figure what Vladimir Putin has to gain from Donald Trump unless it is to have a 'useful idiot' as President of the United States. Acquiescence in Russian aggression first in the former Soviet Union, and then elsewhere? Lax treatment of the Russian Mafia? Splintering of NATO?

...Reagan foreign policy and Sanders economics? I'd go for that. Wouldn't you?

Are you kidding me? You'd (the liberal's, blue's or progressives) be giving up a valuable excuse for loosing. What Putin has to gain is living and staying in power and not ending up dead ( killed in horrible ways or legally tried and executed) like dictators of old and relatively recent dictator's that we have witnessed over the years. You don't think letting immigrants (legal or illegal) vote isn't going to have an impact on democracy. If you had a brain, which you and most blues don't when your emotions are tapped, you'd be able to see the harm stuff like that can do to a democracy. Like I said in a thread that disappeared, there are differences between you and I that determine the way we vote, the ideology we represent, where we end up and so forth.