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In reply to the discussion: Please stop calling Dems "weak" because we don't have many options for stopping Supreme Court nomine [View all]cloudythescribbler
(2,586 posts)There were crickets of silence (and still are) in response to the very cogent reports by Greg Palast about massive voter suppression, especially in GOP-controlled swing states (and there were a LOT of them, including but not limited to WI, MI, and PA) was decisive in shifting the electoral college (and possibly a number of House & Senate seats) to the GOP. These VERY cogent reports, including Palast's warning in RollingStone in August of 16 were ignored by the feckless/obedient Democrats and MSM. Such is how the REAL America functions, especially when the chips are down.
Russia surely spied on and did what they could to sow confusion in the US election, tho the scale and decisiveness of it are orders of magnitude less cogent than Palast's systematically ignored reports. It is also true US has interfered BIGTIME (not just supporting overthrow of a long string of democratically elected leaders) as in the Russian elections of '96. Should every precaution against such interference be mobilized? Yes. Should this be arguably the MOST oxygen-absorbing issue in the mainstream media concerning Trump 2017-18? NO!. And Palast's reportage actually deserves as much attention (not rubberstamping agreement but coverage, debate, investigation, and pursuit by a NONFECKLESS Democratic Party) as RussiaRussiaRussia
Sorry if this is too harsh a criticism of the Democrats for some -- but only this kind of confrontation with truth will get us anywhere -- and since such is all too rare, we are in serious trouble