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Originally Posted by Acepimp
Russia's goal wasn't to help Trump win, but to stir division among Americans.
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This is entirely possible. If so, they have done a great job at it.
This didn't start under Trump; It started while Obama was in office. Somehow the truth no longer was important. Republicans - and I use that term very broadly - kept screaming "the economy is bad and getting worse" and "Hillary Clinton is a criminal", both of which wasn't true at all. No matter what the truth is out there, but people refuse to believe it. Obama cut unemployment by half and handed Trump a perfect economy - Trump didn't do anything, and the economy was booming before he took office. Hillary Clinton had endured a dozen investigations and still has never faced charges. There is yet another investigation into Hillary Clinton going on today.
I believe some of this was fueled by foreign influences, meaning Russia. But it's also much larger than this. The truth is the Internet has given the average person a much larger platform than most people deserve to have. A lot of these people are less interested in the truth, and much more interested in making a profit. Twenty or even ten years ago we had the news - real reporters doing real investigating and going after the truth. Suddenly we are being told not to trust the news we've trusted for decades but instead to trust random websites and bloggers who are heavily biased. Breitbart is not news; It's political opinion pretending to be news. When the founder of Breitbart is working for the White House, well, that says it all. It's like Anderson Cooper going to work for Hillary Clinton.
I'm guilty of this myself with my little Patriot Newsletter blog. I do not consider it news or even opinion; I consider it satire. My hope isn't to make money off of it, but instead to get a following and be able to say "People will believe anything".