Originally posted by whichphiloophy:
All we can see is; an investigation and then assumptions based on non specifics with no smoking gun with a conclusion. How can an idiot beat the other candidates and win the Presidency. the allegations seem more to be rooted in Butt-hurt over the election results.
I see this claim again and again from Trump supporters. You guys really do seem to live on another planet, or at the very least have a very odd view of humans and their motivations. Put plainly: this defense is stupid, and people that use it should feel stupid for doing so.
The democrats are running around with admittedly, a lot of angst over losing this election. There are various reasons for this, and even a cursory reading of any left leaning political articles, social media, or news programs will reveal those reasons. Top contenders are 1) Hillary ran a lousy campaign. 2) Hillary is a lousy choice to run (for various reasons). 3) The democrats have essentially lost their way and are not connecting with working class and poor people. Even 4) We're not listening to the "pain" of the average Trump voter and right wing idiots that continuously vote against their own interests.
Very, very rarely have I seen a democrat blame the campaign loss
solely on the Russian interference in the campaign. It cannot be determined how much that swayed the election. But we DO know it happened, and we DO know Russia did this.
Think rationally for just one damned minute. IF we found out Trump even willfully conspired with the Russians, what would happen? Would democrats get an automatic presidency out of it? Obviously fucking not. We'll end up with fucking plastic man Pence most likely, or even someone else further down the line, but we will STILL have a republican administration. Therefore, it does us NO GOOD to make up a fake Russian story just so we have an excuse for losing.
What everyone should be concerned about is how unfit Trump is for office, and how to prevent interference in our democratic process from now on, which is something that republicans should also be very interested in, if they were only half as patriotic as they claimed to be all these years. Sadly, this doesn't appear to be the case.
Making up motivations for people (that don't even make sense as motivating factors) doesn't help the situation. The very problem that any Trump supporter has is that as all these revelations which come up in our media very much have a tendency to bear out. So thus far, we have an administration that seems in an awful hurry to establish back channels of communications with the Kremlin that bypass normal bureaucratic lines of communication, for unknown reasons.
As this evidence continues to mount with new revelations day after day, it reveals the Trump supporters to look like the conspiracy theorist, reality denying personality types that they are. Once everything comes to a head, and this administration practically collapses in disgrace, his supporters will continue to insist that the "deep state" or some such nonsense would not tolerate "putting America first". There will always be that rabid fan base of deniers that as easy pickings for this con man, his family, and like minded individuals.
