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Originally posted by heckinglovato
The world goes beyond domestic issues.
A foreign government interfering with the US election (and succeeding) is major stuff despite whether or not it affects Trump's status.
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The US does this constantly to its "enemies".
The major world powers are all currently spying on each other, right now, literally at this moment and outsourcing groups to hack one another, even countries with agreed upon protections to not hack into or spy on one another.
HRC literally admitted the US should have intervened with Palestine's past elections in a leaked audio on the campaign trail and there's evidence of precedence worldwide as to why the US thinks they could so easily influence a country's elections.
For liberals to make this into some Modern Red Scare is only going to make them look more outdated. The right don't care / won't be persuaded, and it'll only alienate the left, who know the similar evils America does worldwide, from Democrats as a party itself and cause more in-fighting.
The whole Russia thing is such a fluff piece of propaganda by centrists and establishment figures who are too lazy to fix their politics. A country that has destroyed as many democracies and free societies as the US has for political interest has no place victimizing itself to its own tactics.