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In reply to the discussion: John Dean article explains Trump voters. REALLY! [View all]Grammy23
(5,816 posts)Those on the left have their work cut out for them if they hope to have a fighting chance in 2018-2020. If the Russians are allowed to intervene, we're toast. We cannot be complacent that now that the Russian interference has been revealed we will be okay. Not so. They are still working diligently to hack our elections, our power grid and anything else they can do to disrupt our naive little lives. To those who are ignoring the threat or minimizing it, the shock when they strike again is going to be unsettling, to say the least.
The people need some concrete evidence presented in gory detail, if possible. Even then a core group won't believe it, but the ones who only voted for tRump out of frustration or disappointment in the candidates they were offered on the left might sit up and listen. Call it Clinton fatigue combined with the hatchet job conducted by tRump with the help of the Russians, they were skimmed off and persuaded to vote for a man CLEARLY unqualified for the job. So they are not part of the hard core, and may be persuadable to reconsider their vote.
I understand that an investigation is under way and secrecy is necessary to do the work to make sure they catch the guilty and gather all the details necessary to purge them from our government. But the dirty deeds continue and the tRump administration is doing damage every day they are allowed to remain in power. Our governing bodies, our way of life, the things we hold most dear about country are at stake. Every day that things are allowed to remain as they are, we are at risk.
I don't have a clue exactly how we should proceed at this point but just hinting at the Russian interference and not informing the people that this was real and not a minor thing (or minimizing its impact on the election) is not helping at all. The ones who support tRump can continue to think it's all a made up thing---a hoax. The rest of us are held hostage by tRump and his minions, even though, clearly, there are MORE OF US than there are of the deluded tRump gang of the faithful.