A friend sent me this link, to an opinion piece in the Boston Globe that makes the obvious point that we have been “hacking” election for years, so we really don’t have much right to be outraged by what the Russians may have done.
Some of our politicians tell us we are a Christian country, but in this respect, we don’t even measure up to the Confucians, who formulated the Golden Rule a little differently. It’s called the silver rule and it goes like this:
“What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.”
Not quite as noble as the Golden Rule, but we’d be a lot better off if we took even the silver rule to heart.
As contemptible as Trump is, and as treasonous as it was to collude with the Russians, which he surely did, the fact is that their efforts probably had little to do with the election’s outcome. Our government has been much more effective at stealing elections . No, this one was stolen by a homegrown fascist, the hypocritical James Comey. Let us not forget, as well, that this election was yet another casualty of the Democrats’ perverse need to appear to be bipartisan. Had Obama appointed a Democrat to head the FBI, Hillary Clinton would be the president-elect, and the American Republic would not be at this fearsome crossroads. I just wonder if the Democrats will learn anything from all of this. No, I don’t. I already know the answer.
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