11-21-2016, 06:48 PM
If the Russians hacked the US elections enough to alter the results, then we might as well treat those elections as null and hold new ones in early -to-middle 2017 to fill the Senate and House seats. The partisan balance between the Presidency and the House must have a split to prevent anything stupid from going on in the interim.
An election decided outside the United States implies that it is not an American election.
So it might not be fair that Donald Trump had his hidden agenda exposed? Tough! He has yet to enact it yet.
Would Donald Trump lose? Sure. Maybe he could yield to some other Republican nominee -- Romney, Kasich, Jeb Bush... if one of those won we would all have some relief.
An election decided outside the United States implies that it is not an American election.
So it might not be fair that Donald Trump had his hidden agenda exposed? Tough! He has yet to enact it yet.
Would Donald Trump lose? Sure. Maybe he could yield to some other Republican nominee -- Romney, Kasich, Jeb Bush... if one of those won we would all have some relief.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.