There are two quite distinctively different narratives happening here at the same time. Let me demonstrate what I mean....
The intelligence services have already affirmed that Russia hacked the emails of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign manager. These emails were then leaked to Wikileaks and the FBI.
I think when the Russians successfully hack your election, and the experts failed to stop them, we don't really need to take the experts seriously anymore.
Do you see the subtle difference? In one instance, the Russians hacked
emails... in the other, they hacked the
elections.
Now, we in the general public have no information to support the allegation that "Russians" hacked emails. That's the allegation but so far, there has been no evidence released to support this allegation. It may very well be true. But hacking emails then leaking them to someone is NOT hacking the election. These are two concisely different things.
But this is exactly what SOME on the left want to do... they want to take the allegation that Russians may have hacked emails and leaked their findings and MORPH that allegation into a wild conspiracy theory they actually hacked into voting machines and changed Hillary votes to Trump votes.
Now.... this is a disturbing and dangerous prospect because, if it's true, then we have no integrity in our election system and we can never trust the outcome of elections. When the populace can no longer have faith in the fairness of elections, they have no other recourse than rebellion, revolution, armed and violent revolt and overthrow of government. And it almost seems as if some on the left actually WANT that to happen in America.
Whether you are a Republican, Democrat or Libertarian.... you need to stand in unison to REJECT this nonsense right now! Russians, or nobody else, could have possibly tampered with the results of our elections. Sure, there are always isolated incidents of fraudulent voting. We're never going to catch it all, it's just something we have to live with but it's generally never enough of a factor to change the outcome of an election, especially one across the entire nation in every state. But the idea that some foreign agent can somehow tap into our electronic voting machines and "hack the election" is just complete ignorance of how our system operates. First and foremost, no voting machine in America is connected to the internet. If the election is not online, how can it be hacked?
Did information contained in the hacked emails which were released in the closing days have some influence on the election? Possibly... but let's conduct a test... can any of you name something that was revealed about Hillary Clinton in those leaks that wasn't already known? If you answer yes, then... yes, it was possible this information influenced votes. Now let's also ask, did the revealing of a tape recording of Donald Trump's candid conversation to Billy Bush show something that wasn't already known about Trump? If you answer yes, then yes... that too possibly had an influence on voters. To take it a step further, did the debates reveal information about the candidates we didn't previously know? If yes, then they probably influenced some voters. You see, all kinds of things can have an influence on voters. That's basically what elections are all about.
