The Russians are coming!

RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

OUR DEMOCRACY IS BEING DESTROYED FROM WITHIN, ALL FOR POLITICAL ADVANTAGE.

We are continuously being reminded that the Russians are attempting to subvert our democracy by interfering in our political process. This is just more political posturing for political advantage. The reality is that many countries, including the Russians, Ukraine, Israel, Saudi Arabia, China, North Korea and many others attempt to sway public opinion in their favor. This has been going on forever. The most active and most aggressive interferer in other nations affairs is no other than the United States of America.

It seems that the Russians put $46,000 into ads on Facebook, some were issue ads, some leaned toward or opposed candidates. This is the kind of expenditure that is spent on a county executive or small town mayor race. Compared to the $1.5 billion spent in the presidential campaign it is an insignificant pittance. Many of these adds are likely an effort to gauge public opinion on certain matters important to these countries.

As long as our voting machines are never hooked up to the internet, they cannot be hacked by anyone. We need to be more concerned of the manipulating of machines at the local level. The place to look for voter fraud is in the registration process. It seems no one really wants to look there. It is far more glamorous to infer that the Russians are manipulating our elections. Especially if you can cast doubt on the election of Donald Trump. The usual pattern of crying foul, to accuse people of cheating, is by the cheaters themselves. How can anyone have beat us, when we had all the votes in line, had all the dead voting, had all the illegals registered. We had the media, Hollywood, all the government employees, all the unions, socialist and those dependent on the government in the bag. They have had to have cheated far more than us.

So, the pattern has been established, blame everything that goes wrong on the Russians. After all, the seniors still remember the cold war, communism and Stalin as an enemy. All the big government types, socialists and communists consider modern Russia and Putin as traitors to the world socialist cause. The Russians are an easy target, they will find very few defenders.

Never mind that there is obvious corruption and politicization at the FBI, the CIA, the IRS, the state department  and most all federal agencies. Don't worry about any of that, these are the good guys. We need to worry about Russia, the evil empire, who is trying to subvert our democracy.

The indictment of 13 Russians for interfering in our election is a joke, they will never see a court, they will never be tried or extradited to the U.S., so they are a safe scape goat. What a good job the investigators have done.

Now, will we see Russia indict Victoria Nuland, and many others in the U.S. state department that have interfered in Russian elections? Will Israel indict members of Obama's team he sent to Israel to interfere in the Israeli election? We could add Egypt, the Ukraine, Crimea  and don't doubt there are many more. 

Then we can claim more outrage, that the Russians are attacking us.