(01-28-2020, 09:17 PM)Jags Wrote:

(01-28-2020, 09:00 PM)mikesez Wrote: Most people weren't swayed by Russia.
Russia got false or exaggerated divisive stories to go viral on Facebook and especially Twitter.
They also hacked Hillary's campaign managers' email and tried to time the release of those emails to cause maximum embarrassment for Hillary. This was clever because the authentic but superficial Hillary campaign emails got blurred in peoples' minds with the never found but very important Hillary secretary of state emails.

None of that swayed my opinion.  Hillary is corrupt. She has no morals.   She’ll kill anyone that disagrees with her.   I more so feel bad for those that actually voted for her knowing she is the scum of the earth.   I would’ve voted for a foreign born <35 yr old person that’s not even eligible for presidency over her. But luckily we had Trump running against her.  We’re blessed. Don’t you think?

It's good that none of it swayed your opinion. None of it swayed mine either. but I did have some friends sharing some of this obvious propaganda on Facebook, and it makes me wonder.
But I'm not grateful for Trump. Hillary and Trump were both the worst candidates in a generation. Maybe a century.
Each of them would have run us further and faster down the road from a  limited government with division of powers and checks and balances, and towards an unlimited government whose only check is the opposing party.  Senators should care more about the prerogatives of the Senate than they care about who wins the white house in the next election. But that's not where we live anymore. The Senate is no longer a check when they're the same party as the president. If they're a different party, they are a check, but really it's the other party who is a check.
Once the only check is the other party, the next step after that is one of the two parties holds power long enough to mess with elections, and keep the other party from ever winning one, and we become a single-party unlimited government like the Roman empire or 20th Century Mexico.
a good president would be trying to reverse this trend by being less personally divisive and working to reform election laws so that third parties and independents can play a bigger role.
Hillary would have tried to not be divisive, but she's naturally a divisive person.  Trump is divisive on purpose.

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