{"id":30786,"date":"2018-02-10T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30786"},"modified":"2018-02-10T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T15:40:27","slug":"why-russian-meddling-is-a-trojan-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30786","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018Russian Meddling\u2019 is a Trojan Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why \u2018Russian Meddling\u2019 is a Trojan Horse<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Prior to the 2016 presidential election, if one were to ask what single act could seal a new Cold War with Russia, align liberals and progressives with the operational core of the American military-industrial-surveillance complex, expose the preponderance of left-activism as an offshoot of Democratic Party operations and consign most of what remained to personal invective against an empirically dangerous leader, consensus would likely have it that doing so wouldn\u2019t be easy.<\/p>\n

The decision to blame Russian meddling for Hillary Clinton\u2019s electoral loss was made<\/a> in the immediate aftermath of the election by her senior campaign staff. Within days the received wisdom<\/a> amongst Clinton supporters was that the election had been stolen and that Donald Trump was set to enter the White House as a pawn of the Russian political leadership. Left out was the history of U.S. \u2013 Russian relations; that the largest voting bloc in the 2016 election was eligible voters who didn\u2019t vote and that domestic business interests substantially control the American electoral process.<\/p>\n

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Graph: The Democrats\u2019 choice to blame external forces, e.g. Russian meddling, for their electoral loss in 2016 ignores evidence of that none-of-the-above is the people\u2019s choice. The largest voting bloc in the 2016 election was eligible voters who chose not to vote. In contrast to the received wisdom in political consultant circles, choosing not to vote is a political act. The U.S. has the lowest voter turnout in the \u2018developed\u2019 world for a reason. Source: <\/em>electproject.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

More than a year later, no credible evidence has been put forward to establish that any votes were changed<\/a> due to \u2018external\u2019 meddling. As the Intercept has reported<\/a>, since the election progressive candidates seeking public office have been systematically subverted by establishment Democrats in favor of those with connections to big-money donors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Why \u2018Russian Meddling\u2019 is a Trojan Horse Prior to the 2016 presidential election, if one were to ask what single act could seal a new Cold War with Russia, align liberals and progressives with the operational core of the American military-industrial-surveillance complex, expose the preponderance of left-activism as an offshoot of Democratic Party operations and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15249,5493,7844,1120,13827,694,15282,5300,827],"class_list":["post-30786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-2016-us-presidential-election","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-rob-urie","tag-russia","tag-russiagate","tag-trojan-horse","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30787,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30786\/revisions\/30787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}