Thursday, August 18, 2016

Democrats Fear Fakes

As I said in a previous post the Democrats are starting to say that they fear some counterfeit emails may appear that look like they were stolen from the Democratic National Committee.  That is called changing the narrative - from the fact that they did so poorly at protecting sensitive donor information, and actually did some of the things in those emails - to "this is all suspect information that might be lies spread by the Russian FSB".  [ see Politico's story on this from yesterday]. There is another side to this narrative.

The Chinese are supporting the Democrats and the Russians, if what the DNC is saying is true, are supporting the Republicans.  If we focus on any of that, we are misguided.  We need to get these governments out of our political process.  It is far more important to stop the flow of foreign money into politics at all levels, than to worry about hacking of one, or in this case both, political parties.  The problem for both parties is the hacking and foreign money may be related.  If the Russians were hacking the Democrats, they may have been looking for the sources of money from those donors.  That would be something that would really enlighten the electorate.

It seems to be a very interesting change in Information War.  There is so much foreign money in U.S. Politics that politicians do not want to give it up, even while saying how bad it is for the country.  It is undermining the political process of our country.  In case you wondered, that is the purpose.

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