...so the paranoid belief that Russia is controlling and corrupting everything is bad, but the paranoid belief that "the elites" are controlling and corrupting everything just makes sense?
How does one arrive at such a bizarrely hypocritical worldview?
...so the paranoid belief that Russia is controlling and corrupting everything is bad, but the paranoid belief that "the elites" are controlling and corrupting everything just makes sense?
How does one arrive at such a bizarrely hypocritical worldview?
Well, our own elites are in a position to at least try (I don't really believe they're all that successful), and Russia is not.
When it comes to manipulating either the media or elections, I'm not worried about Russians; I'm worried about Americans, who actually have their hands o nthe levers.
How do you figure that Russia isn't in a position to try and manipulate the US populace? They've been manipulating their own people for so long, it's a fine art at this point... if you have those incredible propaganda tools they've been honing for the last hundred years or so, why wouldn't you use them against your arch-nemesis? Clearly, the people with "hands on the levers" aren't in a position to control the narrative, else Trump wouldn't have come within a thousand feet of a debate stage.
...so the paranoid belief that Russia is controlling and corrupting everything is bad, but the paranoid belief that "the elites" are controlling and corrupting everything just makes sense?
How does one arrive at such a bizarrely hypocritical worldview?
Well, our own elites are in a position to at least try (I don't really believe they're all that successful), and Russia is not.
When it comes to manipulating either the media or elections, I'm not worried about Russians; I'm worried about Americans, who actually have their hands o nthe levers.
How do you figure that Russia isn't in a position to try and manipulate the US populace? They've been manipulating their own people for so long, it's a fine art at this point... if you have those incredible propaganda tools they've been honing for the last hundred years or so, why wouldn't you use them against your arch-nemesis? Clearly, the people with "hands on the levers" aren't in a position to control the narrative, else Trump wouldn't have come within a thousand feet of a debate stage.