This is nothing new though. For decades (perhaps longer), democracies have been subverted and are, unfortunately, a liability for many countries. Patriots see it as their duty to protect their countries by insulating themselves against this subversion and consolidating power. It's a dangerous trend.
You may want to investigate the voter ID / disenfranchisement question.
No one is arguing if it's new. The point is it was massive, sophisticated, and targeted. It was an organized attack. We can debate the history of election subversion some other time, but there is a real threat happening right now. Let's focus on that, yes?
What are you talking about?
The son of the candidate openly admitted to meeting with Russian foreign agents in order to secure a quid pro quo agreement (and that doesn't even touch on Flynn and Manafort). We have evidence of pen testing on voting infrastructure, we have copious amounts of evidence of psychological operations currently on-going from Russian services via social media.
This isn't about clinton, this is about defending the core of our democracy from foreign powers. It's obscene to try and shrug it off with such shallow cynicism.
Yet the "dossier" that was paid for via a quid pro quo arrangement is not of concern? IMHO both are very concerning.
> pen testing on voting infrastructure
Have you heard that an un-patched windows computer connected to an open internet connection will be pwned in minutes? This is only possible because of massive "pen testing" being done on all IP addresses.
So of course companies that manufacture voting equipment and have public IP addresses for web or email servers will be "pen tested".
Where will that traffic originate from? Probably in one of the many places where there is a lot of cyber fraud. Russia/Ukraine is one of those places. Without very hard, detailed evidence it is not reasonable to conclude that any such efforts were connected to the Russian government.
We have not been given any evidence, we've simply been told to believe this highly politicized narrative. I'm not ready to do that until there has been actual evidence.
> psychological operations currently on-going from Russian services via social media.
So you consider RT publishing stories about the Flint Water Crisis to be highly detrimental to the orderly nature of American society? News orgs are supposed to publish true stories that point out problems that need to be solved. It's sad and reminiscent of highly compliant citizens of a facist regime that anyone can take seriously the idea that stories in RT about Flint MI or about Laquan McDonald are endangering American stability.
Paid to an american firm by both the GOP and Dem campaigns. That is not the same as a quid pro quo with the intelligence service of a foreign government that is actively trying to interfere in an election
>So you consider RT publishing stories about the Flint Water Crisis to be highly detrimental to the orderly nature of American society? ...
That came totally out of no where. I'll let you argue that with your self all you want.
You can't throw around concerns about divisiveness or "sowing destablization" without asserting your view on stories that are true and legitimately concerning.
I suppose you think those are harmful to keeping everyone happy with their lot in life too?
I think the fact that the core of our democracy was attacked with a vast and sophisticated operation by a foreign government to potentially prop up a candidate both friendly to and quite possibly compromised by that foreign government should lead to MORE fury than is currently happening.